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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
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 t...

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