Friday, February 13, 2004

Some important news !!

It seems that a part of the sourcecode of Windows NT4.0 and Windows 2000 can be found on the internet.

Who's responsible for this leak, isn't known at this moment.  The most bizar thing is that although the heavy security for the blueprint, someone just hacked it.

Another possibility is that one of the orginisations, universities or governements who has parts of the code are the leak or had a hack.  Normally they only had the code under strong restrictions.

At this moment, only Microsoft can say how big the damage will be.  But we could expect several hot fixes for this problem.

More info about this sourcecode :

The part that was stolen is around 660MB, while the whole code is around 20GB.  This was mentioned on news.com.  So you can't build a new OS with this source, but you can see how everything is build, and use this information to create hacks,... for these windows versions.

2/13/2004 12:49:32 PM (Romance Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #     |