Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 19, 2003 04:19 AM
Yes, the code was new. But there was not a single new idea in the whole thing. Written in the 1990s, it was just another multitasking OS like the ones that had been written in the 1960s and 1970s. It may have been new code, but it was 20-year-old technology. Worse, its security was a big step backwards from the OSs that its ideas were copied from. The Windows message queue had no mechanism for authenticating the source of a message, a mistake that is the basis of a privilege-escalation exploit that still works on NT.
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Re:Biil gates IP theft
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 19, 2003 04:19 AM#