32TB of Windows 10 internal builds, core source code leak online

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  1. Minimalist

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    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/23/windows_10_leak/
     
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    Wow. Just wow.
     
  6. Keatah

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    So who is making up nonsense on Win 11 and 12?
     
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    Win 11, Win 12 ... Sound like sequels to a lame horror movie....Oh they are? Silly me
     
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    Ok, how does Windows 10A Win 10B etc sound?

    There already is a Windows 10 S in the making is it not?
     
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    Agreed. The chosen nomenclature hardly matters. Major post-RTM Windows 10 "updates" have certainly been and will continue to be no less complete OS re-installations than the Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 "upgrade" was. And the supported status for each (CB, CBB, LTSB, or whatever) also has an effective EOL date.
     
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    What really matters here is that M$ purports to stick to the position that any real serious secured internal code is still under their security and surely they've made some provisions for keeping the most sensitive of their intellectual rights under tighter guard.

    But that also doesn't excuse or dismiss the fact there was some OEM code leakage. What goes now if any of it gets circulated through wrong channels and lands where it was not intended?
     
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    Mostly agree with that too. Guess it's just another confirmation that Microsoft's “security by obscurity” (or anyone else's for that matter) only works as well as their security of the obscurity. I have an uncomfortable feeling, especially considering recent NSA involvement, that what has so far been revealed and is currently known about this latest breach may be much less than the whole story.
     
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    I was hoping for a more complete leak. So that a 3rd party could examine and document all the back doors.
     
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    Good Point! :D

    However no matter though. Updates would just add them back in another fashion or new upgrades could be recoded to add them someplace else right?
     
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    "...While The Register claims 32TB [compressed to 8 GB] of data, including unreleased Windows builds, has been leaked, The Verge understands most of the collection has been available for months, or even years...

    Beta Archive owner Andrew Whyman has revealed the source code was just 1.2GB in size and has been removed. In an email to The Verge, Whyman says Microsoft has not forced the site to remove the code and that 'we have removed the file under our own decision'...”

    https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/24/15867350/microsoft-windows-10-source-code-leak
     
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    10 is the last M$ OS. So it'll be 10f1 (fix) followed by 10f2, 10f3, 10f4 etc.
     
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    Quite a week isn't it?

    First we have this and then Tuesday's massive outbreak. What's next? Anyone care to venture a guess?
     
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