Re: Microsoft Windows Help Centre Handles Malformed Escape Sequences Incorrectly

[Benji <me () b3nji com>]

because when she gets 0wn3d she can be all like 'ruh roh, well, 0day
can happen to anyone'

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Benjamin Franz <jfranz () freerun com> wrote:
> 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
>
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