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Re: [Full-disclosure] Microsoft Windows Help Centre Handles Malformed Escape Sequences Incorrectly
- To: Benjamin Franz <jfranz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Microsoft Windows Help Centre Handles Malformed Escape Sequences Incorrectly
- From: Benji <me@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:28:25 +0100
because when she gets 0wn3d she can be all like 'ruh roh, well, 0day
can happen to anyone'
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Benjamin Franz <jfranz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 06/11/2010 02:40 AM, Christian Sciberras wrote:
>> In my humble opinion, he could have waited a couple more days just in
>> case Microsoft decided to do the unprecedented.
>> In which case, I progressive change of policies at Microsoft are
>> better than a couple of users getting hacked from pron sites...
> As I said: Travis indicated in his original post he believes the exploit
> *was already being used in the wild*. So NOT releasing it wouldn't
> protect users. It would just keep it "secret" from everyone except
> Microsoft *and the black hats who were already using it*. While
> maintaining a false air of intact security for everyone else.
>
> That is better, how?
>
> --
> Benjamin Franz
>
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