full-disclosure - Re: Microsoft takes 7 years to 'solve' a problem?!

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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:10:58 +0200
From: "James Matthews" <nytrokiss@...il.com>
To: "Paul Schmehl" <pschmehl_lists@...rr.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Subject: Re: Microsoft takes 7 years to 'solve' a problem?!

Only at the end, When there is a 0-day in the wild they will devote allot of
man power in order to patch it. However in this case i don't understand why
they decided to fix it now however it wasn't worth it to put a bunch of guys
on it.

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@...rr.com>wrote:

> --On Tuesday, November 25, 2008 06:48:34 -0600 James Matthews <
> nytrokiss@...il.com> wrote:
>
>
>> I think in that effect they didn't feel they had to put the resources in
>> to
>> fix it because it wasn't worth the money.
>>
>>
> That's a pretty ridiculous statement considering that they *did* put the
> resources into fixing it.
>
> --
> Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst
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