site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Priority: normal eh, sorry, the point I was trying to make is that Windows really does contain APIs which let you do really bad things to the OS -- so famously bad that... executives will say anything to keep from exposing them. walking another process's memory heap smacks of 1. reverse engineering 2. developing a buffer-overflow attack or 3. trying to patch a memory-leak which is better done using a debugger like Purify http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purify That's the point I meant to make. -Stewart ----- Original Message ----- From: Brad Parker <brad@heeltoe.com> Date: Thursday, September 7, 2006 5:54 pm Subject: Re: API used to access process heap structure

Stewart.Dickson@noaa.gov wrote:

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Are you sure this is a good thing to do?

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,5264,00.asp Allchin: Disclosure May Endanger U.S.

This is so laughable as to be good comedy. And not something (imho) for this mailing list.

to think that disclosing source code to a publically available piece of software might endanger an entire country shows incredible hubris and a pretty suprising lack of historical knowledge.

time to unsubscribe, me thinks.

-brad

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