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Windows 2000 and Windows NT source code leaked

by Marianna Schmudlach Feb 12, 2004 6:02AM PST

The popular news site Neowin is reporting that the source code for Microsofts Windows 2000 and Windows NT operating systems have been leaked to the Internet. You can read their article about this at

http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=17509

In their words:

"This leak is a shock not only to Neowin, but to the wider IT industry. The ramifications of this leak are far reaching and devastating. This reporter does not wish to be sensationalist, but the number of industries and critical systems that are based around these technologies that could be damaged by new exploits found in this source code is something that doesn't bare thinking about."

PivX Solutions are currently working hard on trying to validate these claims.

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why

by lonewolfa1 Dec 16, 2005 5:55AM PST

i heard there is profanity in the source code, why would any well respected programmer(S) would put that junk into the code

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