XPost: alt.privacy, comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc, alt.comp.lang.pascal   
   From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2009-08-23, nemo_outis  wrote:   
   >   
   > Only 25 years from vulnerability exposure to a real world exploit?  Wow,   
   > what blinding speed!  Kinda takes your breath away. Truly those "evil   
   > hackers" are cutting-edge devils.   
   >   
   > So vulnerabilty announcements are followed by exploits - whodda thunk it?   
   > You may as well make an trumpeting announcement for every virus in   
   > Norton's and Mcafee's databases.   
   >   
   > Moreover, besides the non-newsness of it all, my post was specifically   
   > addressed as to why neither "security experts" nor I were surprised -   
   > it's just another run-of-the-mill exploit of a long-known vulnerability.   
   > Script-kiddie stuff.   
      
   Strictly speaking, it infects the precompiled libraries, not the compiler   
   itself, so isn't the same as e.g. the Richie post.   
      
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