Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 23:18:03 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Chip McClure <vhm3@hades.gigguardian.com> Cc: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, FreeBSD Chat Mailing List <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: /.: Microsoft Cites National Security to Justify Closed Source Message-ID: <3CEB381B.AB516BBC@mindspring.com> References: <20020521180055.D98860-100000@hades.gigguardian.com>
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I find it all incredibly amusing. If someone figures out how to exploit the bug, now that it's been "mentioned", then... Microsoft was right: disclosure results in exploits, and the source code is the most blatant possible disclosure If someone doesn't figure out how to exploit the bug, now that it's been "mentioned", then... Microsoft was right: it's only the non-publication of the source code itself which has saved us all Heads, I win, tails, you lose. 8-) -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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