State Department break-in last summer

[fw at deneb.enyo.de (Florian Weimer)]

* Nick FitzGerald:

> You -- and all journalistic and other commentaries I've seen/heard on 
> the increasingly common use of these targetted Office exploits -- miss 
> one very important option, I think; the attacker has access to 
> (partial) source of the closed, supposedly closely-held, proprietary 
> software in question.

<http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2004/sep04/09-19OfficeGSPPR.mspx>

I would expect that various universities have got access to the source
code as well, and several companies.

The times when you couldn't get source code for proprietary,
off-the-shelf software are over.  Welcome to the new world order! 8-)