Obviously this is good news and bad news. This means that researchers and hackers alike can now take a deeper look inside Windows to understand the inner workings of the operating system. Windows XP Source Code: should we be worried?īut this experiment has risen a few concerns.įirst of all, the authenticity of the Windows XP Source Code leak has been without a shadow of a doubt confirmed. When it comes to the Windows server 2003 source code, NTDEV had more success and was able to compile the operating system and install it into a virtual machine. Obviusly it wasn’t a perfect job – since it was posted only a few days after the leak – and the final compile of Windows XP is missing a few components (for example Winlogon.exe) that prevent the OS from being distributed as a fully-working Windows replacement, but there is room for additional alterations that could lead to full ‘retail’ versions of the operating system. Now security aficionado and part time youtuber NTDEV has managed to compile the source code for both operating systems and was able to use them as a working operating system. A couple of days ago we reported that – allegedly – the Windows XP Source Code (and Windows Server 2003 for that matter) had been leaked online by way of a torrent posted on 4chan.
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