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The Russian government compromised Microsoft in early 2000 and the source code for windows 2K XP and 2003 were all leaked on usenet over a decade ago. Why is t
by holidayacct 6y ago
The Russian government compromised Microsoft in early 2000 and the source code for windows 2K XP and 2003 were all leaked on usenet over a decade ago. Why is this news?
- fourseventy 6y agoI came here to say that as well...
- muterad_murilax 6y agoI am not aware of any earlier publicly documented attempts to build XP from leaked sources.
- SSLy 6y ago>Why is this news? Because the more general public (for a certain degree of generality) apparently didn't know about this until this week. Usenet is now seen mostly as a device for good ol' piracy.
- dilyevsky 6y agoI suspect msft provides sources (for audit) to governments all over the world if they want the contract.
- toyg 6y agoProbably because it's now marginally less likely that MS will pursue any hobbyist attempt to work with the codebase, considering all those versions are long dead.
- mindfulhack 6y agoDo you have a link (or links) that corroborates this?
- niutech 6y agoHere is a mention of the leak of some Windows source code (in Russian): https://www.securitylab.ru/forum/messages/forum18/topic18684/message199343/#message199343 https://www.securitylab.ru/forum/messages/forum18/topic18684...