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From: nekramer at mindtheater.net (Nancy Kramer) Subject: InfoSec sleuths beware ... What Gregory says makes a lot of sense. MS is trying to use free labor to improve their competitive advantage. The good thing about it is that MS software will probably be more secure as a result for the endusers and the net community as a whole. Regards, Nancy Kramer Webmaster http://www.americandreamcars.com Free Color Picture Ads for Collector Cars One of the Ten Best Places To Buy or Sell a Collector Car on the Web At 04:45 PM 2/18/2004, Gregory A. Gilliss wrote: >Did I miss the thread or has no one yet postulated that the Microsoft >source code subset was leaked intentionally in order to afford M$ the >free services of hundreds or thousands of security researchers auditing >their code for them? > >It is a known fact that Windows 2000 and XP are soon to be depreciated >in favor of the next generation OS. W2K and WXP will be supported for >another year or so afterwards. The new component probably will contain >some of the current code set, so why not risk a couple of serious exploits >(like M$ cares) in favor of getting your code certified by the community >for free? > >G > >On or about 2004.02.18 13:06:44 +0000, Blue Boar (BlueBoar@...evco.com) said: > > > There are clear, admitted cases of reverse engineering by vulnerabiity > > researchers, which are prohibited by EULA, and which MS has so far > > declined to pursue. Why should this be different? MS afraid the EULA > > restrictions wouldn't hold up? > >-- >Gregory A. Gilliss, CISSP E-mail: >greg@...liss.com >Computer Security WWW: >http://www.gilliss.com/greg/ >PGP Key fingerprint 2F 0B 70 AE 5F 8E 71 7A 2D 86 52 BA B7 83 D9 B4 14 0E >8C A3 > >_______________________________________________ >Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. >Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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