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Open Source and Free Software

Pab Sungenis

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Reply to bemildred (Original post)

Wed Feb 8, 2012, 12:01 PM

Feb 2012

Even so, the company said, it had contacted customers in recent weeks to get them to apply software upgrades that could address known security problems.

Uhhhh... if they knew about these security problems why did they only push upgrades after someone threatened to post source code that could reveal them? Shouldn't they have pushed the patches long before?

This calls a lot of question into Symantec's "security" software, too, if you ask me.

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Hacker posts Symantec source code after ransom demand fails [View all] bemildred Feb 2012 OP

One question. Pab Sungenis Feb 2012 #1

It's likely that they did push the upgrades previously. drm604 Feb 2012 #2

See 'security through obscurity'. n/t BadgerKid Feb 2012 #5

+1. nt bemildred Feb 2012 #6

Good thing I don't use any Symantec bloatware. hobbit709 Feb 2012 #3

Generally, the first thing I remove, if it's going to be a Windoze box. bemildred Feb 2012 #4