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Microsoft Windows 2000 source code leaked

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Bejarano)
Fri Feb 13 13:38:05 2004

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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:50:43 -0400
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From: Marc Bejarano <bugtraq@beej.org>
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we may see a big spike in vulns and corresponding exploits for windows, but 
only time will tell.  neowin.net broke the story that the source code to 
windows 2000 has been leaked and is making the rounds in the usual 
places.  their server is currently suffering from the slashdot effect, though.
original story was at:
http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=17509&category=main

ars technica has some sober coverage:
http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1076628412.html

slashdot story:
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/02/12/2114228.shtml?tid=109&tid=187

marc


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