Window's Source Code Leaked

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:28:39 Post Subject: Window's Source Code Leaked

Microsoft spokesman Tom Pilla said in an interview with The Associated Press that some incomplete portions of the Windows 2000 and Windows NT4 source code had been "illegally made available on the Internet." - FoxNews

Yikes

Red Squirrel · Posted: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 20:44:22 Post Subject:

Scarry how the fact of having the code leaking makes it a bad thing for security. Shows that it's sloppy coding if hackers can simply look at it and notice problems. Grin

T-shirt · Posted: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 01:34:41 Post Subject:

I think MS's concern is as much about controling the release of proprietary code, as it is about security threats (that comes later)