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MS chooses to leave critical security hole unfixed.

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Orethrius:

--- Quote from: Jack2000 ---i wonder if they will abondon 98 in full
as in "relese source and let the open comunity to picker  on it "
--- End quote ---

 Not a chance in hell.  That being said, it seems that nobody noticed that Windows 2000 was made open source quite some time ago.  A lack of willingness to use it doesn't make it any less leaked.  :D

H_TeXMeX_H:
Yay, I hope they keep doing this :D

piratePenguin:
BTW:

--- Quote from: my php.ini ---; Print out errors (as a part of the output).  For production web sites,
; you're strongly encouraged to turn this feature off, and use error logging
; instead (see below).  Keeping display_errors enabled on a production web site
; may reveal security information to end users, such as file paths on your Web
; server, your database schema or other information.
display_errors = Off
--- End quote ---
It's not a huge deal (I don't know any situation where security information is revealed), but I think display_errors should be off.

Calum:
well firstly, open source does not mean you can see the source, it means you have a right to use the source to develop new code.

secondly, there is no possibility of windows' source code ever being released to the public as it would compromise a great deal of software in microsoft's current products which is unstable and insecure. they have stated this publicly, and even in court as part of a defense argument i believe! unlike most other popular operating systems microsoft windows really is too far down the road to ever be fixed up, in terms of security and stability, to the point where it can safely have the source code available to be viewed by just anyone.

to me, this makes it a failure as a secure and viable operating system.

worker201:
Well, that's what you get for not following Microsoft's regimented upgrade schedule.  If you want your computer to be more secure, you better upgrade.  To XP.  Then, in a couple months, when Vista is ready, you can upgrade to Vista to avoid a hole in XP that they've decided would be "unfeasible" to fix.

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