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To: Golden Eagle
Looks like some hackers named "Hexview" released a hack to the public instead of giving it to the vendor privately so they could patch it prior to working exploits being available.

Does the security of Microsoft products REALLY rely on the charity of hackers to privately report the defects they find in Microsoft software?

Good Lord, it's worse than I thought. I'm glad I don't use the affected product.

30 posted on 10/01/2005 8:12:34 PM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: Petronski

The whole, some hacker did not tell MS first argument might hold weight if this hole was not revealed nearly 6 months ago! Six months to fix a pretty serious bug, should be long enough..


32 posted on 10/01/2005 8:20:58 PM PDT by N3WBI3 (If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
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