Chris Williams at The Register reports that 32TB of Win10 internal builds, including some source code for core processes, is available for download. T
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GuestJune 23, 2017 at 5:59 pm #121866If true or not, Microsoft needs to make a public announcement tout suite. Private communications with their top clients over the next few days will not be enough with something as crazy as this.
If true and hackers have the OS source code (and access/security codes) they can build exploits that penetrate firewalls. Enterprise and Industry that have already migrated to Windows 10 will need to batten down the hatches. They have no choice.
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AskWoody_MVPJune 23, 2017 at 9:21 pm #121892From Under pressure, Western tech firms bow to Russian demands to share cyber secrets:
“Russian authorities are asking Western tech companies to allow them to review source code for security products such as firewalls, anti-virus applications and software containing encryption before permitting the products to be imported and sold in the country.”
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AskWoody MVPJune 23, 2017 at 11:55 pm #121909Linux has rejected “security by obscurity” from the start, though.ย Any code can have undiscovered bugs or unintended behavior in novel conditions that can be exploited to breach the security measures in place; Linux’s open source nature simply makes it a lot easier to discover those bugs, which is the first step in fixing them (and exploiting them).
Windows, though, has long been hidden from view.ย Security bugs that would have been discovered and fixed ages ago (under the “all bugs are shallow with enough eyes” theory) in Linux may still exist within the closed-source Windows code, and once that code is made public, there could be some new exploits discovered. While the Linux detractors like to trot out a few well-publicized examples of long-standing Linux security bugs that didn’t prove to be shallow enough, the observation that Linux isn’t, in your words, a “fantasyland playground for viruses and bug-exploitation” shows that there is at least some truth in the philosophy.
In the short term, the leak of source code may mean Windows will be more vulnerable, but as those exploits are discovered and patched, it will end up more secure than it would have been.ย Fixed security holes are better than unknown ones any day, since “unknown” status cannot be guaranteed to persist.
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GuestJune 24, 2017 at 12:59 am #121911AFAIK, M$’s Win 10 computers regularly phone home to M$’s servers with users’ private Telemetry & Data which are encrypted by M$ before being collected.
… If hackers have access to M$’s secret encryption keys and the servers, they can create various exploits and opportunities, eg plant ransomware/malware, spy on “valuable” Win 10 users/targets for trade secrets and insider business dealings, etc.-
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GuestJune 24, 2017 at 12:12 pm #121958You are forgetting public key cryptography (aka asymmetric cryptography). They can encrypt it with one key (public) in the source code (or even publicly disclose the key) and decrypt it on their en with their private key that doesn’t ever have to leave the building (aka not in any source code).
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