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They wait for MS to do it for them. Or, at least, so says this article.

For those of you who'd rather not read the article, here is a quick summary:

Malicious hackers and vandals are lazy and wait for Microsoft to issue patches before they produce tools to work out how to exploit loopholes in Windows, say experts.

Interesting. Given their incorrect usage of "hacker", it's not surpring they're capable of such idiocy.

replace the term "hacker" with "script kiddie", and that article could be perceived as more accurate

Bah, simply flawed propaganda. *Dismisses with a wave of the hand.*

Embracer Of Darkness wrote:Bah, simply flawed propaganda. *Dismisses with a wave of the hand.*

Actually, this has a large amount of merit.

Unless sourcecode to exploit the security hole is publicly released, its a shit load easier to reverse engineer a 50kb patch to figure out the exacts of the exploit. Then they rely on the lazy idiots who dont update their computers for infection.

ggs wrote:

Embracer Of Darkness wrote:Bah, simply flawed propaganda. *Dismisses with a wave of the hand.*

Actually, this has a large amount of merit.

Unless sourcecode to exploit the security hole is publicly released, its a shit load easier to reverse engineer a 50kb patch to figure out the exacts of the exploit. Then they rely on the lazy idiots who dont update their computers for infection.

those are what you call script kiddies, as opposed to an actual hacker.

Hmm... so it's better to not release security patches, eh?

if microsoft got the code right in the first place, they wouldn't need patches.

No it's better to download security patches as soon as they come out to avoid getting the virii designed to work with the holes they fix.

Darth_Zod wrote:

ggs wrote:

Embracer Of Darkness wrote:Bah, simply flawed propaganda. *Dismisses with a wave of the hand.*

Actually, this has a large amount of merit.

Unless sourcecode to exploit the security hole is publicly released, its a shit load easier to reverse engineer a 50kb patch to figure out the exacts of the exploit. Then they rely on the lazy idiots who dont update their computers for infection.

those are what you call script kiddies, as opposed to an actual hacker.

I really hate quoting large amounts of text just to make one comment, but... My point exactly, Darth_Zod. Also, this article was obviously written with some intent to make crackers and whatnot look incompetent, despite the fact that it takes alot of intelligence to do what they do, and a vast majority of them aren't malicious.

Darth_Zod wrote:if microsoft got the code right in the first place, they wouldn't need patches.

True, but on the other hand, its impossible to predict every flaw. The fact that its taken this long to find some shows how hard they were to find.

They need to cut down, but no OS the size of Windows is going to have no security flaws.