VMware ESX source code leaked

...at least they could post smth funny along side it and make in into a pro "open source" (like "open source yourselves or we'll come and open your sources" - alongside a picture of a vicious blood filled can opener) or anti "security by obscurity" (like "what's left of your security, now that we removed your obscurity?" - and a pic with a camera and a flashlight over someone doing smth naked in the bushes or smth like that).

...someone should put the fun back into cyberwar ;)

i don't really see why this might in any way be significant. (and why should customers of esx be worried now? it's not that they employ security-by-obscurity, or do they :D)

Is it enough to build?

Not related to the current leak, but I found the following passages particularly interesting:

> The Anonymous-affiliated hacker claimed the information came from China National Electronics Import and Export (CEIEC), an engineering and electronics company outfit.

> An Indian hacktivist crew called the Lords of Dharmaraja claimed they lifted Symantec's source code from systems belonging to the Indian government.

Why do foreign governments have access to the source code of proprietary software made by privately owned American companies? Do software vendors routinely disclose their source code to governments, whether foreign or domestic? Or does it only happen in special cases where a contract to supply software for the government requires handing the source code over, too?

Does the Chinese government have the full source code of Windows 8 that they can analyze at leisure to look for 0-day vulnerabilities? Does NSA have the full source code of the latest iOS?