RE: [Full-Disclosure] And how long have buffer overflows been aro und?

2004-02-27 Thread Ng, Kenneth (US)
What quantum universe is this guy coming from? I don't know the start of the internet, but the date on the telnet RFC 318 is April 3, 1972 ( http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc318.html ) According to Microsoft's own time line ( http://www.microsoft.com/windows/WinHistoryProGraphic.mspx ) Windows NT

RE: [Full-Disclosure] And how long have buffer overflows been aro und?

2004-02-27 Thread ypwhich
Coding for NT started in 1988. Product wise NT was released in 1991-1992, I believe. All of that aside, it does not predate the Internet... that's rubbish. -ypwhich On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Ng, Kenneth (US) wrote: What quantum universe is this guy coming from? I don't know the start of the

Re: [Full-Disclosure] And how long have buffer overflows been aro und?

2004-02-27 Thread Gregory A. Gilliss
Hey, list, can we drop this thread? Aucsmith's an idiot...I think the Internet world has figured that part out already. How about this for a thread - Why Microsoft Never Seems to Learn? They release their crappy software and it gets hacked, then they blame the community. They allow their