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So a month before patches for supported versions of Windows. Does that mean I can get info on current Windows 0days simply by subscribing to XP support program

• belltaco 9y ago
  Many of the researchers already test to see if they work on XP. You could do what you said but it's pretty expensive and only works for a bulk deal at around $200/PC/year with a large number of PCs at a minimum.
  • qb45 9y ago
    I surely won't be doing it myself, but I can imagine some spook making this small personal sacrifice of becoming an employee at some Windows XP shop just to smuggle patches to his mothership for vulnerability analysis. I hope that the fact this patch was signed in February doesn't imply that it was published in February and available to every semi-competent cyberwarfare unit in the world.