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Old 05-29-2003, 01:30 PM   #31 (permalink)
Antagony
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Smeth is right. But not only that, coders behind Open Source software fix those holes really fast. I don't remember which group it was (I want to say sendmail), but it was a particularly interesting case.

They did a new public release. Something like 6 hours later, an exploit was found and posted. Then in like another 6 hours a new release was out to fix the problem.

12 hours to hole discovery AND fixing? The day Microsoft pulls that off is the day flying pigs freeze Hell over and bring Apocalypse.
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