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Re:$50,000 to keep Symantec source code private by onedognight on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @01:06PM (#3562935)
> Still, the code is worthless for anyone if your product is secure. And I would imagine that product by security company would be secure.

Actually they had known vulnerabilities, but they didn't think it worth their time to fix them until their code was to be released.

http://www.symantec.com/theme.jsp?themeid=anonymous-code-cla...

> On Friday, January 27, 2012, Symantec released a patch that eliminates known vulnerabilities affecting customers using pcAnywhere 12.0 and pcAnywhere 12.1.

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Re:$50,000 to keep Symantec source code private by scoot on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @04:14PM (#3563656)
Poorly worded that's all, after all, you can't fix unknown vulnerabilities.
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