Originally posted by Sephiroth@Feb 12 2004, 07:53 PM
Ouch, as many ways as people could benefit from this if it's true, I actually hope it's *not*, once virus writers, etc. get ahold of it and go digging through source code, find a few hundred exploits MS hasn't found / patched in their own code
Or perhaps it means coders can actually discover and FIX the problems. Microsoft's current approach seems security through obscurity, meaning the few people who manage to discover new security flaws can wreck havoc on any microsoft computer system. Now it's out in the open, and perhaps flaws can be found and weeded out by thousands of competent programmers.
Huh.. Is that the same devastastion as the HL 2 source leak?
Much worse. The HL2 source was an early alpha which didn't even work. The leaked was hyped up to be much more serious than it actually was.