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> It was nice that Microsoft had already fixed a bunch of them (almost like they were told ahead of time they were coming). Hmmmm. I wondered for a minute, th
by i336_ 9y ago
> It was nice that Microsoft had already fixed a bunch of them (almost like they were told ahead of time they were coming).
Hmmmm.
I wondered for a minute, then remembered that the leak was dropped, encrypted, onto torrent sites.
So there's your "it's out there". And you have a file size.
From there, well, Microsoft is yuuuuge, so it's entirely feasible that some nice person with connections to the leak in question could probably drop "well this and that was in it." From there it's not too much of a stretch to imagine a response team quietly forming to prioritize fixing everything "just in case".
It's entirely possible Microsoft ended up fixing more things than have been disclosed here - I vaguely recall the core leak involved hundreds of GBs of stuff, but that only a part of the data/code actually escaped. If that's true that's almost funny.