* Profanity, partner's name hidden in leaked Microsoft code - It
makes it easier" on hackers, said Ken Dunham, Malicious Code
Intelligence Director for security firm iDefense. "Instead of trying
blindly to get in, now you can just go in, see the lines of code, run
it, test it." Dunham and others spent hours looking for clues in the
code, a mix of assembler, C and C++ programming languages. The leaked
Windows 2000 code contained 30915 files and a whopping 13.5 million
lines of code, he said. And the Windows NT breach had 95,103 files and
28 million lines. Both were available as zip files being exchanged
readily on the Internet, Dunham said. HYPERLINK
"http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/biztech/02/13/microsoft.source/index.h
tml" \n"You have a mixture of good code and junk that doesn't make
sense," he said. "It looks like someone was playing around with it."
It's not clear whether numerous profanities that are written into the
code -- invisible to front-end users of the programs -- were put there
by Microsoft developers or those who got their hands on the files after
them. "
-Gel
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From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Not really. Maybe if *all* the source code leaked. But this is only
about 3%.
Jochem
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