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[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 months ago

I guess he was ready to play.

PSA: I'm probably old enough to be your father, let me have my terrible jokes/puns.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

I can imagine what they felt like. Like when you accidentally hit "reply all" and send a porn link that was in your clipboard to your entire company while you meant to paste something else.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So... What link did you send?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

I'm guessing furries.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

My dad did something similar. My mother in law pointed it out and giggled. I facepalmed

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

tl;dr there were two leaks: A Microsoft employee had compiler issues and attached the code to a publicly-visible bug report, and Microsoft's public symbol server had debug symbols for the library (which makes it a lot easier to reverse engineer and debug the production build in a debugger).

Did the employee that accidentally leaked it think that the public developer community was an internal bug tracker? Strange. I wonder if Microsoft do actually use the same site for both internal and external bugs and the employee just selected the wrong category when posting. Seems like an unnecessary risk.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A résumé-generating event for sure.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago

"Facilitated open computing initiatives and exercised independent judgment and mastery of social engineering techniques and forum software."

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

“accidentally” 😉