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Panel Probes the Half-life of Bugs
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-07-30

LAS VEGAS--Software security holes never die, they fade from the Internet at a rate of 50% every thirty days after a patch is released, according to the results of a study released at the Black Hat Briefings security conference here Wednesday.

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Panel Probes the Half-life of Bugs 2003-07-31
Anonymous
Now Now...

LSD *DID* alert Microsoft prior to releasing the details of the bug. They had exploit code but withheld it. *ANOTHER* group crafted the exploit code and released it.

It's *BECAUSE* LSD held back on publicly releasing the details of the bug that Microsoft was able to have a patch o...

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