News Windows XP Source Code Leaked, Posted to 4chan (Up, It Works)

[Admin]

The Windows XP source code has been shared to 4chan, and has now made its way to Mega and torrents.

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[Makaveli]

If companies are still running windows server 2003, and don't have those machines Isolated and with extra protection on the network you deserve to be hacked.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

Microsoft should open source it and let the community maintain it I bet there’s lots of people who would love to run XP. 😆

But then nobody would make drivers for it

 

[AnimeMania]

Oh well, I guess China now has that operating system that they can completely control that works on the computers systems that they completely control.

 

[Math Geek]

the problem as stated many times before is that the modern windows is still based on this same code. this is why a patch made for win 10 also works on 8, 7, vista and xp usually. same code base so patch fixes the issue present in all those versions.

it also will let those who wish to exploit windows an idea how the code is written. there will be trends and common methods used that will give an understanding on how win 10 works in many ways. knowing how the code is written and basic trends it uses helps a lot into creating exploits. how they harden the code or when they don't bother is VERY VALUABLE info to have when looking to exploit something.

i realize many don't know as much about programming as others but this is really the concern here. folks need to stop thinking each windows version is somehow independent of the others. obviously newer win 10 features are unique but they will still be written using the same trends and common methods used since windows became a thing.

think of how many exploits are out there WITHOUT knowing the source code. MS is in trouble here and i'm sure they are looking into the same things i am saying to see how many trade secrets are now in the wild.