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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?

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Dec 11 3:59 PM EST

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To: ProDeath who wrote (44522)	5/8/2000 3:24:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	of 74651

Re: BASIC Security model - 10 years ago I was involved in the development of a DOS BBS/Net program. We used QuickBasic in some part because of it's string handling abilities. We also availed the source code for the BBS to SysOps to modify. It was known to us that there was one or two absolute show stopping exploitable security holes in QuickBasic that could only be somewhat patched in the BBS. Microsoft would not, or could not patch it. --- Looking back at that, it's not only remarkable that the bugs were not more widely exploited, but remarkable as well that Microsoft still has the same security model this many years later with the VisualBasic product. --- Old dog - old tricks. -JCJ

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