that´s not going to be very easy... since it´s has been downloaded over a million times (only suspected) in the last couple of days.. and can be accessible on all p2p networks, irc etc..

Just as long as no actual links are posted to this board, there is nothing that anyone can do about it. For all they know, that screen shot could've been shopped...

it was... :-]

I wouldn't know what to do with it, even if I leeched it?

Stolen Windows code not critical weakness - [Computer Security]
Submitted by Forcefire on 2/16/2004 3:31:25 AM Add Comment

The source code leak from Microsoft is not as serious as first feared, security experts have advised.
Early indications are that the code that has been published will be of limited use to hackers. The 658MB which has been posted online in a compressed file makes up less than two per cent of the total source code for Windows 2000 and NT.
"I wouldn't be panicking too much," said Graham Titterington, senior analyst at Ovum.
"Understanding source code is a difficult job even for skilled hackers, and it's unclear how much good it will do them."
Hackers are most likely to be focusing on finding system code levels, where the operating system interacts with other data. This gives an idea of the data structures that are passed backwards and forwards by the operating system.
Meanwhile the search has begun for the source of the leak, with industry watchers suggesting that it may have resulted from the company's Shared Source Initiative (SSI).
"It's the SSI I'd point my finger at," said Professor Neil Barrett, technical director of Information Risk Management.
"Because of the SSI a lot of people have code. For a hacker looking for vulnerable systems to penetrate it would be a lot easier to go for a third party."
"There's a high probability this comes from a third party," agreed Ovum's Graham Titterington.
"Microsoft does share its source code fairly widely and this is a likely source."
In a statement Microsoft said: "Windows source code for Windows 2000, XP and Server 2003 have been available through the SSI to over 3,000 customers, partners and governments for the past three years.
"For more than 12 years we have been providing Windows source code to universities in order to facilitate research.
"Microsoft now provides source code for a range of products to more than 800,000 developers through the Shared Source initiative."

I've heard that some of the code itself points towards one of the only two linux based companies that got a look in about 4 years ago. Company called Mainsoft. Apparently there are some calls to proprietary routines or some such...

Either way, I've heard rumours that the leak is anywhere from about 2% to 15% of the full source code (that makes the full source anywhere from 4Gb to 40Gb depending who you listen too).

looking at microsofts previous products with hidden flight simulators and other space eating easter eggs and bad/excess code I am sure it´s closer to 40gb :-)