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It's not that hard if you have a top notch engineer in charge and give him whatever he needs to get the job done.

If you have a good engineer or a great engineer but any kind of bureaucracy, yes, it's near impossible.



google - top notch engineers, given whatever they need to get the job done, no bureaucracy, still get owned?


If you're talking about the China hacks, they were using ie6. I'd argue that would preclude the "top notch engineer" label.


Nope.

Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 6 SP1, 7, and 8 on Windows 2000 SP4; Windows XP SP2 and SP3; Windows Server 2003 SP2; Windows Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2; Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2; and Windows 7

http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-0...


yup.

"Microsoft thanks the following companies for working with us and for providing details of limited, targeted attacks against customers of Internet Explorer 6:

Google Inc. and MANDIANT; Adobe; McAfee; French government CSIRT (CERTA)"

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/MS10-00...


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