Rob Chartier ~ Contemplation...

is MS down?

http://www.microsoft.com/

I can't get through ...

I've been reading this stuff for about 20 minutes now. And at first I was like "This can't be real."

But after looking through the file listing...I'm half tempted to change my mind about that. The listing is too long and detailed to be faked unless you have an abnormally large amount of time to waste playing what has to be one of the most scary practical jokes ever.

However, the only way to tell whether this is for real or not is by either:
1) Looking at the source code that's being distributed in the wild and compare it to the "actual" source at MSFT.
2) Build the sucker. And IIRC, this is not an easy task.

I dunno...I'm still unsure as to whether or not any of this is real. I can't get to Neowin...they've been down since before /. got to them. I guess the only thing to do is wait for MSFT to make an announcement as to what's actually going on.

Scoble? Care to comment? ;)

Why does Neowin feels so strongly about how damaging this is?

Linux publishes their source, right? It has just as much potential for exposing security holes, right? As long as MS is willing to close these holes - and if they have any desire to be more security conscious they will - then there's no problem.

We should build an open-source version of windows 2000 using the Freenet Project's anonymous cvs system, to build the non-released non-x86 versions, eg the alpha, axp64, ia64, mips, and ppc source code. lol.

Was NT first programmed by davec on alpha machines? Wow. Too bad dec is gone.

Author:

   Mark Lucovsky (markl) 20-Jun-1989

Revision History:

   David N. Cutler (davec) 18-Apr-1990

       Revise for MIPS environment.

   Thomas Van Baak (tvb) 11-May-1992

       Adapted for Alpha AXP.

This make looks interesting too:

#

# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!!!  Edit .\sources. if you want to add a new source

# file to this component.  This file merely indirects to the real make file

# that is shared by all the components of <b>NT OS/2</b>

#

!INCLUDE $(NTMAKEENV)\makefile.def