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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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Re: Write code correctly the first time 2005-07-11
Anonymous
I agree. Writing code that is "good enough" to put on store shelves and releasing patches over time to fix bugs that are discovered in the future may be a cheaper strategy, but I would think this would be the case only initially. Financial losses that result from exploited vulnerabilities range in t...

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