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RE: Any software security news from the RSA conference?
From: ljknews <ljknews () mac com>
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 15:58:38 +0000
At 5:58 PM -0600 2/27/04, Alun Jones wrote:
Microsoft has a lot of code to contend with, and much of it is old - so a lot of it has had to be scrubbed clean of imperfections, and some has had to be re-written.
A few years ago I heard the problem described as the opposite - that for Windows V.something about 30% of the existing code was entirely replaced (compared to corrected), which is more than _any_ organization can handle safely on a project of that size.
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