CRN article on the Win 2k source code leak...

[Pastore]

Am I reading this wrong or is this guy completely retarded?

"It depends. Microsoft has always made most of the source code available to some academic users and some systems integrators and clients via the Windows Source, and this includes the security APIs and some critical kernel code," said John Parkinson, chief technologist for the North American Region at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. "It's always possible that the code that was released covers areas that have undiscovered vulnerabilities, but it's often as hard to find things in source code as it is in binary code. There is a lot of source code in Windows--I wouldn't panic yet."

http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/breakingnews.asp?ArticleID=47945

 

[Derango]

Wow, that guy's a moron.

 

[Lonyo]

"It is also possible that the Linux community could use the knowledge gleaned from the OS code to develop a form of Linux that could run Windows apps," Carey said.

Econium's Winell said he hopes those that posted the code are identified and prosecuted. "Unlike Linux desktops, which is like the wild, wild West and not controlled and enhanced all the time, Windows users have come to take a quality-controlled operating system for granted and not have to worry about a bad release," Winell said. "We hope that Microsoft can swiftly identify how the code got released, prosecute the perpetrator and build a barrier/security patch to protect against intrusions."

Someone's been at the crack.

 

[Extrarius]

Don't you know those h4x0rz only know x86 assembly? C/C++ source is obviously as useless to them as Scheme code would be =-P

 

[AmericasTeam]

Microsoft leaked it themselves in an attempt to get everyone with NT4 and W2k to upgrade.

 

[FoBoT]

anybody with "chief" in their title should be ignored

talk to somebody 2-3 levels below that guy

 

[dawks]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
anybody with "chief" in their title should be ignored

talk to somebody 2-3 levels below that guy

The guy that posted above you should also be ignored.

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: AmericasTeam
Microsoft leaked it themselves in an attempt to get everyone with NT4 and W2k to upgrade.

It would not surprise me, I work at a fortune 10 IT company and I'd wager that less than 5% of the users here are on XP. Most are on either Windows 2000, a flavor of Linux or still using a mainframe or Unix.

 

[arcenite]

I will never lose teh 2k.. My firewall and I will fight to the death