ZOTOB'S DAY

摘要

He was probably working to deadline. Maybe he was rushing home to see his kids. Maybe, like so many other programmers, he just didn't consider the security of his code. Whatever it was, the Microsoft worker who coded the Plug and Play vulnerability didn't know it was there. Like a lot of vulnerabilities, this one lay dormant until researcher Neel Mehta passed on its details to Microsoft. Motivated no doubt by Bill Gates's famous "trustworthy computing" memo of January 2002, and eager to help its customers, the firm put out a security bulletin. And then all hell broke loose. It was Tuesday, August 9, when Microsoft told the world about the flaw.