full-disclosure - MSIE src&name property disclosure

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Message-ID: <20041108213549.M14239@dekadens.coredump.cx>
From: lcamtuf at coredump.cx (Michal Zalewski)
Subject: MSIE src&name property disclosure

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Paul Schmehl wrote:

  [ Moderators - feel free to kill this ]

> Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.  Most
> likely what happened is the left hand (PR) didn't know what the right
> hand (secure@) was doing.

Highly unlikely; Microsoft Security Response is a team that, among other
things, manages and handles security response, including security-related
PR-esque functions (ever seen 'security evangelist' job postings on the
net?). The quote is fairly specific, so I doubt it could be spawned by a
lone PR drone who did not check with them.

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