It's safe to assume that once we find a flaw, someone else will probably find it. The problem here is that someone malicious might find it and exploit it before Microsoft can provide full protection.
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They are simply left in the dark and may ignore a patch that is super-critical to their environment. Meanwhile, the bad guy has spent the time to find out what was silently fixed.Steve Manzuik
Overall, they have improved, there's no doubt about that. But unless they move faster on some of these high-impact vulnerabilities, we'll always deal with rogue researchers finding the same things,
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There are some extremely smart hackers out there using and sharing the tools that find these vulnerabilities. When Microsoft takes a long time to issue fixes, it sets up a dangerous situation,
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I don't buy the argument that they are aiding attackers. The attackers are already reverse-engineering the patches. They have the time and resources to find out where the flaw lies. The guy that feels the pain is the system administrator who is in the dark and who can't do his own reverse-engineering.
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In the wrong hands this tool is dangerous, ... But that version isn't as dangerous as other versions that will be released.
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