full-disclosure - Gates: 'You don't need perfect code' for good security

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Message-ID: <200311031829.hA3ITqgv009312@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: Gates: 'You don't need perfect code' for good security 

On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 11:19:34 CST, Ron DuFresne said:

> Yes, when it's a continuous cycled circle jerk.  To maintain patches in a
> large org, requires understaffed personel to work pretty much fulltime and
> weekends at the rate holes are found in the main OS' pushed to the masses.

OK everybody.  Time to switch hands... :)

Microsoft has revised the patches for MS03-042, MS03-043, and MS03-045
as of Oct 29.  This is on top of Oct 22 revisions for MS03-041 and MS03-044.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/winoct03.asp

One has to wonder if the effort in re-fixing -041 through -045 is the
reason we haven't seen -046 yet.
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