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Re: [Full-Disclosure] MSIE src&name property disclosure

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michal Zalewski)
Mon Nov 8 20:21:46 2004

Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 21:37:55 +0100 (CET)
From: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@coredump.cx>
To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
Cc: Berend-Jan Wever <skylined@edup.tudelft.nl>,
        full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com, bugtraq@securityfocus.com
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On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Paul Schmehl wrote:

  [ Moderators - feel free to kill this ]

> Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.  Most
> likely what happened is the left hand (PR) didn't know what the right
> hand (secure@) was doing.

Highly unlikely; Microsoft Security Response is a team that, among other
things, manages and handles security response, including security-related
PR-esque functions (ever seen 'security evangelist' job postings on the
net?). The quote is fairly specific, so I doubt it could be spawned by a
lone PR drone who did not check with them.

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