Re: InfoSec sleuths beware ...

["Gregory A. Gilliss" <ggilliss () netpublishing com>]

All,

I do not have the source code (and who needs hundreds of Megs of bad code
anyway). Therefore I cannot reference *which* parts of W2K/WXP were
stolen/leaked. Has anyone who knows anyone who has seen the legit (203M)
file an insight into which portions/components of the code are in the
leaked distribution? Me thinks that would provide a clue as to whether the
breach was real/intentional. For example, if what was leaked is the
"core code" then I would think that the leak is likely intentional
(since who here, without knowing, could look at the source and grab
the pertinent modules, unless Microsoft's CVS tree is much more organized
thatn the rest of their operation :-). However if the source is all over 
the map - i.e. core/active directory/DHCP server/whatever maybe the leak 
is legit. Who knows?

Just trying to help brainstorm the topic ~%-O

G

On or about 2004.02.18 20:39:46 +0000, madsaxon (madsaxon () direcway com) said:

> You missed the thread:
>
> From: Exibar  exibar () thelair com
> Sun, 15 Feb 2004 12:39:25 -0500
> Subject: Microsoft source code "leak"
>
> Anyone ever think that perhaps Microsoft "leaked" this section of code on
> purpose?  Right now there are 1,000's of hacker types and curious types
> pouring over that code looking for flaws.  Sounds like there was already a
> flaw found using a signed integer as an offset, I've also heard that there
> is an exploited version of Notepad floating around now too...
>
>   Microsoft can't pay to have this kind of QA done in house (who could?), 
> so why not release a piece of source and let everyone do it for them?
>
>   Could be that it's a clever way to distract from the ASN.1 flaw that was
> found too... release a bit of code that is meaningless and the exploit
> writers will be too busy looking through that code to write a huge exploit
> for ASN.1?
>
>   Ok, sounds like a conspiracy theroys doesn't it?  And it probably isn't
> true, but stranger things have happened :-)

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