Security News > 2020 > September > Blast from the past! Windows XP source code allegedly leaked online
2020-09-25 18:39
If the reports are to be believed, someone has just leaked a mega-torrent of Microsoft source code going all the way back to MS-DOS 6.
Intriguingly, Microsoft has officially released old-school source code before, such as when the source of MS-DOS 1.25 and Word 1.1a were made public a few years back.
A full and publicly accessible dump of Windows XP source code has never, to our knowledge, happened before.
As far as we know this is the first claimed Windows XP source code that's appeared as an all-in-one, come-and-get-it-one-and-all mega-dump.
All things being equal, serious security flaws are easier to find if you have commented source code in front of you as well as the compiled binaries.