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Re:Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked ... by TomJansen on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @06:45PM (#24644930)
Not really true, there was a Windows XP repo on the darkweb already
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Re:Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked ... by CodeArtisan on Thursday October 01, 2020 @02:39AM (#24648020)
The kernel source code (NTOS) was available for years through an academic program[1], it was easily findable on emule/edonkey/torrent. IIRC, the implementation of NTFS was not included. This leak is the full source code of Windows XP, both kernel and userland (+50 Gigabytes).

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20100213105753/https://www.micro...

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Re:Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked ... by ColanR on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @07:19PM (#24645254)
Source?
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Re:Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked ... by russh on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @08:23PM (#24645820)
Yes, I believe it was the source.
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Re:Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked ... by vmception on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @08:49PM (#24645990)
so so much doesnt have articles written about it and evidence only exists for a limited time

I’ve seen a ton of stuff on Empire that wouldn’t have a direct link and Empire is gone now

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Re:Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked ... by INTPenis on Thursday October 01, 2020 @03:09AM (#24648191)
I also remember Windows source code leaking in the early 2000s. I even downloaded it myself back then but that was many computers ago.

And afaik it was not buildable. It was a large chunk of the source code that iirc had leaked from a 3rd party who was tasked with making some component, perhaps related to the image library.

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Re:Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked ... by heavyset_go on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @10:49PM (#24646779)
I've heard for years that it was floating around, and saw some torrents that claimed to be the XP source, but I've never downloaded it myself to find out.
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