Hackers leaked 32 terabytes of secret Windows 10 code

[Eric Oyen]

yeah, thats the danger, now isn't it. looks like we need to be promoting Linux and the BSD's a lot more folks. Considering things, we have a lot less security issues (although there are some, admittedly).

-eric

On Jun 25, 2017, at 11:01 AM, Matthew Crews wrote:

> Running Windows 7 is a mixed bag though, from a security perspective. Wasn't it fully affected by WannaCry while Windows 10 was immune? Besides this leak will probably make it easy to port any win10 exploits to Win7 and Win8.
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2017, 10:44 Eric Oyen <eric.oyen at icloud.com> wrote:
> its a very good thing that I didn't upgrade to win10 on the windows machine. win7 is still stable, although it is getting a little long in the tooth.
> 
> whats even funnier, the ubuntu instance here on the mac is still 14.04 LTS and it has had NO ISSUES. Its nice to dual boot this mac once in a while into linux and have some things actually work right. then again, OS X just works on its own. :)
> 
> -eric
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> On Jun 25, 2017, at 6:12 AM, Matthew Crews wrote:
> 
>> Also not looking good for their Windows 10 S. It was found that Word macros could crack it's security wide open. (That also says a lot about how not secure MS Office is).
>> 
>> Expect to see lots of zero day exploits as a result of this.
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Jun 24, 2017, 23:26 Herminio Hernandez, Jr. <herminio.hernandezjr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I saw this yesterday. It is pretty interesting.
>> 
>> On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 11:12 PM, Eric Oyen <eric.oyen at icloud.com> wrote:
>> didn't MS claim they were more secure recently? sounds like they are about as secure as a screen door on a submarine.
>> 
>> -eric
>> 
>> On Jun 24, 2017, at 6:00 PM, techlists at phpcoderusa.com wrote:
>> 
>>> Thought you might find this interesting.
>>> 
>>> http://www.businessinsider.com/windows-10-source-code-leak-2017-6
>>> 
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