On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:47:06AM -0800, jgw wrote:
> > FYI, beginning this month, MS changed to announcing/releasing critical
> > update security patches only on the second Tuesday of each month.
> 
> If this is true, this plan isn't going to last long. Any hack victim would
> have a heyday in court if it could prove that Microsoft knowingly knew
> about an exploit, and held onto an announcement/patch for a month.

That's not hard to prove, since MS discovers only a small portion of
their vulnerabilities, most come from security companies who post the
results, and dates of what they find.

Cory


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