full-disclosure - Re: Microsoft Windows Help Centre Handles Malformed Escape Sequences Incorrectly

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:15:01 +0100
From: Benji <me@...ji.com>
To: T Biehn <tbiehn@...il.com>
Cc: "full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk" <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>,
	"bugtraq@...urityfocus.com" <bugtraq@...urityfocus.com>,
	Benjamin Franz <jfranz@...erun.com>
Subject: Re: Microsoft Windows Help Centre Handles
	Malformed Escape Sequences Incorrectly

You're just jealous I had the intuition to protect myself.

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On 11 Jun 2010, at 17:03, T Biehn <tbiehn@...il.com> wrote:

> It's a good thing I ran that anti-hacker script!!!
>
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Benji <me@...ji.com> wrote:
> because when she gets 0wn3d she can be all like 'ruh roh, well, 0day
> can happen to anyone'
>
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Benjamin Franz <jfranz@...erun.com>  
> wrote:
> > On 06/11/2010 02:40 AM, Christian Sciberras wrote:
> >> In my humble opinion, he could have waited a couple more days  
> just in
> >> case Microsoft decided to do the unprecedented.
> >> In which case, I progressive change of policies at Microsoft are
> >> better than a couple of users getting hacked from pron sites...
> > As I said: Travis indicated in his original post he believes the  
> exploit
> > *was already being used in the wild*. So NOT releasing it wouldn't
> > protect users. It would just keep it "secret" from everyone except
> > Microsoft *and the black hats who were already using it*. While
> > maintaining a false air of intact security for everyone else.
> >
> > That is better, how?
> >
> > --
> > Benjamin Franz
> >
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