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Reverse engineering patches making disclosure a moot choice?
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-07-01

When Microsoft released limited information on a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer last month, reverse engineer Halvar Flake decided to dig deeper.

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Write code correctly the first time 2005-07-07
Karen (1 replies)
The disclosure debate is pointless. If software was written correctly to begin with, there would not be a need for security patches and hence no worries about reverse engineering.

Funny the article does not mention that!

Perhaps it is because software developers cannot write good enough code to save their lives.

Maybe companies know it is cheaper to patch problems as they occur rather than spending the time to learn how to write code correctly.

Or perhaps the authors of that article knows that if Microsoft developed bug-free software, they would be out of business!

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Re: Write code correctly the first time 2005-07-11
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