Zero day Excel hacker takes on ebay

Posted by henke54 on Dec 12, 2005 1:00 AM EDT
vnunet; By James Middleton
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Typically, software companies are given a window of between one and a number of months to examine and release patches for the problem, before the finer details are released to the public. But fearwall is understood to have said in his auction description: "Since I was unable to find any use for this by-product of Microsoft developers, it is now available for you at the low starting price of $0.01 - a fair value estimation for any Microsoft product." The seller even offered Microsoft employees a discount: “To qualify, you must provide @microsoft.com email address and must mention discount code LINUXRULZ during checkout," he said.

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