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| Time: 15:37 EST/20:37 GMT | News Source: E-Mail | Posted By: Brian Kvalheim | ||
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As a reminder to our readers, we are repeating the same advice we published in 2000, the last time Microsoft's source code was compromised. Don't look at it or you could contaminate yourself legally: The Wall Street Journal reported today [October 27, 2000 -- Ed.] that Microsoft and the FBI are investigating an intrusion in which unknown attackers had access to Microsoft source code for three months. Although nothing purporting to be Microsoft source code copied in the intrusion has surfaced yet, any such code poses a legal risk to people who read it and to any free software project that accepts contributions from those people. |
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| #1 By 6859 (206.156.242.36) at Friday, February 13, 2004 04:04:27 PM |
| One would think that such a reminder isn't even needed. Sadly, it is. |
| #2 By 531 (199.36.37.55) at Friday, February 13, 2004 04:12:13 PM |
| Exactly. Just look at the comments on /. |
| #3 By 6859 (206.156.242.36) at Friday, February 13, 2004 04:37:17 PM |
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If it is MS Paint, then maybe they can make The GIMP better by incorporating some functionality.
/sarcasm. Seriously, the code that leaked is bad news. I wouldn't touch it nor would I encorporate it. The OSS movement would do well to steer clear of it at all costs; the problem is, most of the Windows viruses/trojans/worms are written by folks that aren't to moral and they'll see this as the ultimate opportunity to make the uber-virus. Bummer. |
| #4 By 3339 (64.160.58.135) at Friday, February 13, 2004 05:26:40 PM |
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Brian, you'd better have a talk with Todd.
;-) |
| #5 By 665 (64.126.80.41) at Friday, February 13, 2004 05:30:34 PM |
| Hey now, I just had to verify its existance! |
| #6 By 1845 (67.161.212.73) at Friday, February 13, 2004 05:50:12 PM |
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About 1.5 MB of the leaked 628 MB is mspaint. I'm sure you got your little tidbit of info from Paul. Once again, the dork doesn't know what he's talking about. This post was edited by BobSmith on Friday, February 13, 2004 at 17:50. |
| #7 By 2332 (216.41.45.78) at Friday, February 13, 2004 06:30:09 PM |
| I think Paul was joking. |
| #8 By 3339 (64.160.58.135) at Friday, February 13, 2004 06:54:48 PM |
| This comment has been removed due to a violation of the Active Network Terms of Use. |
| #9 By 3653 (209.149.57.116) at Friday, February 13, 2004 07:25:55 PM |
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"MS can't do anything about it now."
LOL. Then by all means incorporate in in every open source project you can. No way they'll ever be any repurcussions. This might turn out to be the straw that broke the open source back. |
| #10 By 3339 (64.160.58.135) at Friday, February 13, 2004 08:45:32 PM |
| Yeah, me and Todd are going to singlehandedly destroy the entire conception of open source. Ha, ha, ha. |
| #11 By 2332 (65.221.182.2) at Friday, February 13, 2004 09:13:42 PM |
| #9 - I'm pretty sure he was. I think Paul knows that MS Paint is a very small program that doesn't take 650MB of source code to produce. |
| #12 By 10557 (68.236.17.247) at Saturday, February 14, 2004 12:53:07 AM |
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Hmm... I wonder if i've ever posted on AW before... Anyway, here goes:
From what I've seen of the directory structure (the indexes are available through Google), most of this SP1 source code is just those few components that were bug-fixed, anyway. Some things we know are very old versions (like early versions of XMLHTTP), so most has nothing to worry about (unless those endless zero-bytes .eml files are of interest to you). Luckily for me, I don't do C, so I have no clue what half the functions are... I guess they wouldn't be able to attack me cuz I'm just too clueless as to what the source code really does!!! :o) |
| #13 By 8589 (66.169.175.50) at Saturday, February 14, 2004 04:05:15 PM |
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This is as significant as Janet Jackson's breast being revealed.
Not at all. LOL http://www.amateurgourmet.com/the_amateur_gourmet/2004/02/janet_jackson_b.html |
| #14 By 2231 (68.100.227.178) at Saturday, February 14, 2004 10:19:36 PM |
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Is there an ethical problem with looking at the code?
If I'm a developer and this code can assist me with legitimate development, I don't see a problem. I'm not talking about reusing or altering the MS code. This post was edited by schwit on Saturday, February 14, 2004 at 22:23. |
