Hackers leaked 32 terabytes of secret Windows 10 code

2017-06-24 Thread techlists
Thought you might find this interesting. http://www.businessinsider.com/windows-10-source-code-leak-2017-6--- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlin

Re: Hackers leaked 32 terabytes of secret Windows 10 code

2017-06-24 Thread Eric Oyen
didn't MS claim they were more secure recently? sounds like they are about as secure as a screen door on a submarine. -eric On Jun 24, 2017, at 6:00 PM, techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote: > Thought you might find this interesting. > > http://www.businessinsider.com/windows-10-source-code-leak-20

Re: Hackers leaked 32 terabytes of secret Windows 10 code

2017-06-24 Thread Herminio Hernandez, Jr.
I saw this yesterday. It is pretty interesting. On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 11:12 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: > didn't MS claim they were more secure recently? sounds like they are about > as secure as a screen door on a submarine. > > -eric > > On Jun 24, 2017, at 6:00 PM, techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote:

Re: Hackers leaked 32 terabytes of secret Windows 10 code

2017-06-25 Thread Matthew Crews
Also not looking good for their Windows 10 S. It was found that Word macros could crack it's security wide open. (That also says a lot about how not secure MS Office is). Expect to see lots of zero day exploits as a result of this. On Sat, Jun 24, 2017, 23:26 Herminio Hernandez, Jr. < herminio.he

Re: Hackers leaked 32 terabytes of secret Windows 10 code

2017-06-25 Thread Eric Oyen
its a very good thing that I didn't upgrade to win10 on the windows machine. win7 is still stable, although it is getting a little long in the tooth. whats even funnier, the ubuntu instance here on the mac is still 14.04 LTS and it has had NO ISSUES. Its nice to dual boot this mac once in a whil

Re: Hackers leaked 32 terabytes of secret Windows 10 code

2017-06-25 Thread Matthew Crews
Running Windows 7 is a mixed bag though, from a security perspective. Wasn't it fully affected by WannaCry while Windows 10 was immune? Besides this leak will probably make it easy to port any win10 exploits to Win7 and Win8. On Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 10:44 Eric Oyen wrote: > its a very good thing t

Re: Hackers leaked 32 terabytes of secret Windows 10 code

2017-06-25 Thread Eric Oyen
yeah, thats the danger, now isn't it. looks like we need to be promoting Linux and the BSD's a lot more folks. Considering things, we have a lot less security issues (although there are some, admittedly). -eric On Jun 25, 2017, at 11:01 AM, Matthew Crews wrote: > Running Windows 7 is a mixed b

Re: Hackers leaked 32 terabytes of secret Windows 10 code

2017-06-25 Thread Bob Elzer
I have a new OS coming out soon, it's not based on linux. It's called Bob Windows 11.0 Anyone want to try it :-p. lol On Jun 25, 2017 11:55 AM, "Eric Oyen" wrote: > yeah, thats the danger, now isn't it. looks like we need to be promoting > Linux and the BSD's a lot more folks. Considering thi

Re: Hackers leaked 32 terabytes of secret Windows 10 code

2017-06-25 Thread Eric Oyen
well, there is always clinton 2.0 (codenamed bill). It never gives you the correct response to a command. yeah, I know, its a bad political pun, but I just couldn't help myself. :) -eric On Jun 25, 2017, at 9:10 PM, Bob Elzer wrote: > I have a new OS coming out soon, it's not based on linux. >

RE: Hackers leaked 32 terabytes of secret Windows 10 code

2017-06-26 Thread Carruth, Rusty
scuss [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Eric Oyen Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2017 11:13 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Hackers leaked 32 terabytes of secret Windows 10 code didn't MS claim they were more secure recently? sounds like they are about as secure a