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I am baffled as to how we are meant to react to this revelation. "So what?" is my reaction. People involved in writing software, unless it is for an entirely solo project, are bound to share source code in order to make the different modules work together. Within the walls of Microsoft the developers must see eachother's code, and indeed within McAfee. That is nothing to do with the OSS ethic, that is just a practical consideration. I haven't read TFA (did not want to fill their form) but if they are saying that malware source code is put on public facing web sites then that would seem to weaken the malware's effect - in that security specialists (like McAfee) can see for example when time bombs are due to go off and whether there is a simple way to disable the malware.

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