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Re: Microsoft Windows Help Centre Handles Malformed Escape Sequences Incorrectly
From: Benjamin Franz <jfranz () freerun com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:01:08 -0700
On 06/11/2010 02:40 AM, Christian Sciberras wrote:
In my humble opinion, he could have waited a couple more days just in case Microsoft decided to do the unprecedented. In which case, I progressive change of policies at Microsoft are better than a couple of users getting hacked from pron sites...
As I said: Travis indicated in his original post he believes the exploit *was already being used in the wild*. So NOT releasing it wouldn't protect users. It would just keep it "secret" from everyone except Microsoft *and the black hats who were already using it*. While maintaining a false air of intact security for everyone else. That is better, how? -- Benjamin Franz _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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