open-source Windows

[waider]

Hackers with the code could exploit the operating system and access machines running Windows.

• ...like everyone does with OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, MacOS X (well, the Darwin core, anyway)
• ...which they're not able to do right now
• ...as soon as they stop laughing

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

An ex-haxx0r-kiddie-now-security-tiger-type friend of mine got a hold of the code. He's going to audit it with a friend, he says. It should be interesting, and riddled with buffer overflow vulnerabilities, of course.

obscurity leak

[tongodeon.livejournal.com]

Microsoft calls this a security leak. Of course if they've got tons of buffer overflows that nobody knows about, that's not security: that's obscurity. They don't have a security leak, they have an obscurity leak.

[bitpuddle.livejournal.com]

It is more like, "UNIX developers all over the world will wonder at the sheer number of macros in Win32 code."

Re:

[candice.livejournal.com]

Okay. Have you ever -looked- at the source code to unixes?
Everything has a few macro-happy people on it, as far as I can tell.

[waider.livejournal.com]

Ah, C-Kermit.

Re:

[bitpuddle.livejournal.com]

Nothing like Win32. It gets scary.