I'm no Windows expert, but isn't Windows 2000 built on NT just like XP is? Then I would think the core of the operating system would be the same and probably lot's of exploits for 2000 could work for XP.
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Well I'm actually very surprised how long this took!
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This was posted earlier so the threads will be merged.
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I suggest not looking at it. It could affect any project you continue to work on afterwards and might undo ages of work.
Worst thing you could possibly do is "help" wine or a similar project with it. It would completely wreck the project by discrediting it, and by ensuring it gets sued into the ground. If you ever plan to work on any open source projects don't read the code, or risk taining the project. |
you should be more concred with what itll do to you if you do look at it, let the windows hackers take a look at it and see how every line contains a valerablilitiy(even tho i ahvent looked at it, it would make sence sence the MS themselfs are scared of people finding valnerabilitiys :)) they can use to make the next big virus/worm/nuke/whatever, besides, all that bad code might be unreadale by linux hackers/programers, and n worse caase might make you code worser code :(
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It's gonna be a while before anything abusive is ever made as a direct result of the leaked code. Quotes about being glad to have a Mac :) and all the profanity hints that the inside coders were given assignments that alarmed them about the quality of the OS. Does that make sense?
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Isn't this better? We use this to put into the new kernels and solve the closed source issues of NTFS?
Two good things: Better NTFS support in kernels New material to incoporate in Wine(X) Plus the released source can be improved on! |
2 problems, MS might go after that stuff now saying its break pantents or inelectualy property, and copywrite or whatever, so like the guy said above a bit its best not to even look at teh code so MS wont have such a big case to sue you with
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Conspiracy theory: Maybe microsoft did this to freak out all the win2k users. Then they will all upgrade to winxp?
I feel kind of constrained because if i take one line of code from the source, i could be sued by microsoft. There are definetly heavy consequences for taking and even reading the code because microsoft is definetly going to be paranoid about this. But wouldn't be interesting to see how they made MSpaint? hehe |
we alrdy know (or at least this is what i think), they bought the basic program from somwere else, added a few features the recylced from a word processing program, and viola!, just like every other piece of code they "made"
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Can they track everybody down who has the code?
Hell, no. *googles* |
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ah that would mean relaive from sco suing linux, they would go sue MS and MS would drag it out till sco goes bankrupt
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This is sort of like that movie Antitrust
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