full-disclosure - Re: Microsoft issues out-of-band patch

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Message-ID: <6158bb410812190814p2c18838alaf416bfe5afc8aa@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:14:03 -0500
From: Ureleet <ureleet@...il.com>
To: n3td3v <xploitable@...il.com>
Cc: n3td3v <n3td3v@...glegroups.com>, full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Microsoft issues out-of-band patch

just plain stupid.  i dont know where to start, so i wont.  fuck.

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:50 AM, n3td3v <xploitable@...il.com> wrote:
> "The software giant rushed out a fix for the security issue in eight
> days, following its discovery that online criminals were using the
> flaw to attack Internet users."
>
> http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/873
>
> This is because they usually hold back disclosure and patch release so
> the intelligence services can backdoor criminal and terrorist pc's.
>
> We're not saying Microsoft has never been capable to release a patch
> in eight days, we're saying there is an agreement with the government
> not to, unless a flaw is publicly known and is affecting the
> internet-at-large.
>
> There are a ton of zero-day that Microsoft and the government know
> about and are used for intelligence purposes, they are kept secret
> unless the public know about it and the zero-day becomes a threat to
> the government.
>
> Though the fact is this, MI5 have zero-day that not even Microsoft
> know about and not only this, MI5 have their systems patched against
> flaws that are not known about by other entities.
>
> What i'm saying is this: MI5's systems are patched against flaws that
> only they know about and their technicians have developed their own
> in-house patches for them.
>
> If that isn't impressive I don't know what is.
>
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