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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: Re: Re: Write code correctly the first time? 2005-10-14
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To test it's effectiveness, I reverse engineer my own company's digital filing security solution, and I tend to agree with David. Our core programmers have to make patches for things that didn't start out as an exploitable weakness. As our coders get better I get better, and potential hackers get ...

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