Win2k and NT4 source leaked?

[Heed]

http://slashdot.org/

Can't believe it hasn't been posted yet.

Neowin is the original source apparently, but they got knocked offline when this went up at slashdot.

From the original Neowin report:

"At this time, it is hard to establish whether or not full code has leaked, and this will undoubtedly remain the situation until an attempt is made to compile them. Microsoft are currently unavailable for comment surrounding this leak so we have no official response from them at the time of writing.

This leak is a shock not only to Neowin, but to the wider IT industry. The ramifications of this leak are far reaching and devastating. This reporter does not wish to be sensationalist, but the number of industries and critical systems that are based around these technologies that could be damaged by new exploits found in this source code is something that doesn't bare thinking about.

We ask that for the wider benefit of the IT community that members and readers support Microsoft by forwarding anything they know about the leak to the Microsoft's Anti-Piracy department."

[Nowhere]

That would be something...and could potentially disqualify at least NT 4.0 & win2k as OSes I would consider for use anywhere (possibly also XP...)

And I wonder what MS will do to the ones who leaked it One thing for sure: it will be very painfull...

[Wombat]

MS will probably benefit from the leak more than lose. These are old OSes. However, they share the same technology as new OSes, so MS can now argue that legitimate projects like Samba <I>must</I> have used the leaked code to develop their implementation.

[Nappe1]

acording to my sources, at least the Win2K source looks to be real.

yes, they are old OS'es, but remember that Windows XP is actually Windows NT 5.1 while 2K is NT 5.0, so the differences between the two aren't as big as you could expect based on new things you see. Teh core is most likely pretty much same.

[isochar]

I wonder whose head is going to roll for this...

[Jon P. Inghram]

If it's for real it's gonna be interesting to see what comes of this for sure... like Wombat said, they could use this to take a SCO stance with any competing software. And I don't even want to think about the potential for security exploits.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

ohh... shite... ouch... for MS...

and the other OSes smiles

[dZeus]

I've read lots of statements on the net from people who worked on the source, or had a licence to see it, that _if_ the win2k source is real, at least lots of it is missing in the leaked part (coincidentally always the stuff they worked on or were interested in seeing).

Other people commented that the complete source code was much much larger than 200MB (in the order of tens of GBs rather than hundreds of MBs).

[Drizzt]

Originally posted by dZeus

Other people commented that the complete source code was much much larger than 200MB (in the order of tens of GBs rather than hundreds of MBs).

Not much realistic, 200MB is much more probable.

[The PIT]

Perhaps someone will properly debug it.

[Nicram]

Well this is real source code. & it's not so important that XP or 2003 are new couse they are use the same mechanism in kernel for applications. Win32s is in all versions from ME too 2003. So if some hacker got source code & will find many errors in kernel architecture, them MS got little problem

[Guru]

Windows 98 source code!

// TOP SECRET Microsoft(c) Code
// Project: Chicago(tm)
// Projected release-date: Summer 1998

#include "win31.h"
#include "win95.h"
#include "evenmore.h"
#include "oldstuff.h"
#include "bill_rulz.h"
#define INSTALL = HARD

char make_prog_look_big[1600000];

void main()
(
while(!CRASHED) (
display_copyright_message();
display_bill_rules_message();
do_nothing_loop();

if (first_time_installation) (
make_50_megabyte_swapfile();
do_nothing_loop();
totally_screw_up_HPFS_file_system();
search_and_destroy_the_rest_of_OS/2();
hang_system();
)

write_something(anything);
display_copyright_message();
do_nothing_loop();
do_some_stuff();

if (still_not_crashed) (
display_copyright_message();
do_nothing_loop();
basically_run_windows_3.1();
do_nothing_loop();
do_nothing_loop();
)
)

if (detect_cache())
disable_cache();

if (fast_cpu()) (
set_wait_states(lots);
set_mouse(speed, very_slow);
set_mouse(action, jumpy);
set_mouse(reaction, sometimes);
)

/* printf("Welcome to Windows 3.11"); */
/* printf("Welcome to Windows 95"); */
printf("Welcome to Windows 98");
if (system_ok())
crash(to_dos_prompt);
else
system_memory = open("a:|swp0001.swp",O_CREATE);
while(something) (
sleep(5);
get_user_input();
sleep(5);
act_on_user_input();
sleep(5);
)

create_general_protection_fault();
)

[KvHagedorn]

ROFLMAO

[Technoid]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[bsdgeek]

http://www.betanews.com/article.php3?sid=1076674118