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Re: And how long have buffer overflows been around?

From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 00:28:15 -0500

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:13:01 +1100, Dave Horsfall <dave () horsfall org>  said:

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Edward W. Ray quoted:

Furthermore, the security kernel of the Windows NT server software was
written before the Internet...


Wow - I didn't know NT was around *that* long...


Remember - Microsoft is a solipsist organization.

The Internet didn't exist until they noticed it.

Just like 0day's don't exist before patches come out because they haven't
noticed those either. :)

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