__/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Tuesday 12 September 2006 18:00 \__
> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote
> on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 05:44:53 +0100
> <1538589.SDCVMn92Wi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> __/ [ The Ghost In The Machine ] on Tuesday 12 September 2006 02:00 \__
>>
>>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, 7
>>> <website_has_email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote
>>> on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 19:34:22 GMT
>>> <2TiNg.17438$r61.8798@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/11/1342224&from=rss
>>>>
>>>> Uh oh!
>>>>
>>>> It appears micoshaft is silently micoshafting your disk
>>>> and turning it into a spinning wizz of trashed data.
>>>
>>> Yowch. That's going to sting. Overwriting the last 4096 bytes
>>> with 0xDF (Ã?)?
>>>
>>> St00pid.
>>
>>
>> Yeah, Caveman helped me realise it was a hoax/prank. I didn't pay
>> attention the the comments. Never gone beyond that Slashdot article's body
>> anyway... 0x00P5!
>
> Ugh. Oh well, these things happen.
0x5H1T 0xHAPPEN5. 0x00P51E! I'll watch me (sic) mouth.
>>>> No fix as yet for irrecoverably trashed data despite you having paid.
>>>>
>>>> Oh well.
>>>>
>>>> Loads of open source free OSes here to replace data corrupting
>>>> micoshaft OS. http://www.livecdlist.com
>>>
>>> But do they have Official Microsoft Solitaire(tm)? :-)
>>
>>
>> I once read that the source code may have been leaked. Or maybe it said
>> something along the lines of "this is serious. It's not as though the code
>> for Solitaire has been stolen". I think it was the codebase of 2000, which
>> in any case is similar to that of Windows Vista.
>
> IIRC, part of the 2k codebase was apparently leaked at
> one point to certain Russians. I'd have to dig for the
> details.
Feel free to Digg the details as well. *smile* I'm sure that many GNU-bies
would be interested in highlighting poor coding practices*, as well as
proving that dependencies exist that are endless or circular. So far we've
only heard this as testimonies from former Softies.
Best wishes,
Roy
*Symantec might appreciate this. These vendors are being pushed out, as they
lose understanding of kernel API's in SP3. Maybe they could finally gain
insight rather than backward-engineer or collect clues.
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