Clarify the 32TB and 8TB figures please. People with access to the archive who successfully downloaded the confidential stuff did not get nearly that much.
Do you consider windows installation images to be "compressed files" in this context?
Do you consider windows installation images to be "compressed files" in this context?
https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=420025#p42...
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Useful for research, and finding security issues. Not much else.
You can break patents without ever knowing the patent existed. So looking at this code wouldn't trigger a new patent problem.
And simply looking at some code, closing it, then later writing code that does the same functionality is not breaking copyright. So looking at this code would not trigger copyright.
Not a lawyer, though, but a quick search confirms this.
But what data does this 8TB refer to specifically? Is this the source + all the windows builds from a plethora of sources? Did you download 8TB of data from BA and expand it to 32TB or was this a figure provided to you by one of the raided hackers or their associates?
>think the bigger issue is not the final size, but that internal Microsoft material - particularly source code - has escaped into public FTP
Happens regularly, although usually it's MS employees leaving stuff in public FTPs or inside released ISOs, updates, whatever. redmond\ domain is huge and the (accidental or not) leaks never stop.