https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/24/15867350/microsoft-windows-10-source-code-leak
A portion of Microsoft's Windows 10 source code has leaked online this week. Files related to Microsoft's USB, storage, and Wi-Fi drivers in Windows 10 were posted to Beta Archive this week. Beta Archive is an enthusiast site that tracks Windows releases, and asks members to donate money or contribute something Windows-related after accessing a private FTP full of archived Windows builds. The leaked code was published to Beta Archive's FTP, and is part of Microsoft's Shared Source Kit.
"Our review confirms that these files are actually a portion of the source code from the Shared Source Initiative and is used by OEMs and partners," reveals a Microsoft spokesperson in an email to The Verge. While The Register claims 32TB of data, including unreleased Windows builds, has been leaked, The Verge understands most of the collection has been available for months, or even years. The Register also claims the source code leak is bigger than the Windows 2000 leak from 2004, but The Verge understands this is inaccurate and that the Windows 10 source code leak is relatively minor.
[...] The source code leak comes just a day after two men were arrested in the UK as part of an investigation into unauthorized access to Microsoft's network. Detectives executed warrants to arrest a 22-year-old man from Lincolnshire, and a 25-year-old man from Bracknell. The Verge understands both men have been involved in collecting confidential Windows 10 builds, and that at least one is a donator to the Beta Archive site. A spokesperson for Thames Valley police refused to provide more information on the arrests to The Verge, and would not confirm the two identities of the individuals.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 24 2017, @11:25PM (11 children)
What's the reason to dig up and leak shit?
(Score: 2, Informative) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday June 24 2017, @11:47PM (4 children)
The leak came after the arrests. Very stupid leaker! #FuckComey [twitter.com]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 25 2017, @12:01AM (3 children)
You know you don't make sense, don't you?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 25 2017, @02:30AM
I do believe that's the entire point (see GP's username).
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday June 25 2017, @01:51PM (1 child)
It's modern cyber so it's hard to understand. But you don't have to be Einstein (great Jew). Let me say it in a way that's more familiar. A coal truck goes missing and the police arrest James for stealing it. While James is in jail, someone is spotted driving the stolen coal truck around town. Can you see why the thief is stupid?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 25 2017, @02:34PM
Maybe we need to waterboard James and figure out what he knows. The coal truck he stole could be a false flag operation, that's why we need to end the tyranny of Obamacare. Mean.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 24 2017, @11:58PM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 25 2017, @12:03AM
You are delusional within your absolutes.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday June 25 2017, @01:59AM (3 children)
To create buzz and gibs Microsoft street-cred among millennials.
It's a controlled leak. Too Bad, and so sad.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 25 2017, @06:14AM
>implying millennials care
>"what's an o-s?"
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Sunday June 25 2017, @06:39AM
This. It is free advertising for Microsoft. Microsoft indirectly lets betas "leak", while telling everyone how naughty they will be if they are caught with one. So you get all these beta kids who fawn over every incomplete, buggy line of Microsoft code. They make dick swinging contests out of things like "unlocking" some feature still in development or that was removed, or modify the theme and tell everyone they "wrote" a new version of Windows.
Meanwhile the developers and such for whom these builds are actually released, would rather slit their wrists than look at another Microsoft product.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Sunday June 25 2017, @09:28PM
That's because Millennials don't realize that there is an entire software stack below the web browser.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 25 2017, @12:02AM
One more reason to advocate security through obscurity.
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Sunday June 25 2017, @01:05AM (1 child)
"Real men don't use backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server and let the rest of the world make copies."
- Linus Thorvalds
(Score: 2) by KGIII on Sunday June 25 2017, @01:32AM
Two things...
One, I am now confused. I know two people (via online - I've never met either in person) and one more by extension whom I trust when they tell me they've poked through the dump. Two claimed that the only thing of value, that they saw, was a debugger that is proprietary. The third one said there is "no source in the dump" (as far as they could see).
Second, if you're even remotely affiliated with Microsoft, you can actually use their Shared Source Initiative program and see the code for yourself. They'll even give it out to their public MVP people.
Anyhow, I use Lubuntu. I have for quite a while, but I used to use Windows. I'm not certain my information is valid, but I'm told the only things in there were things people in the public 'beta' (Insider Program) had access to.
*shrugs*
Now I kinda want to look.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."