VMware Confirms Source Code Leak 109
Gunkerty Jeb writes "Purloined data and documents, including source code belonging to the U.S. software firm VMWare, continue to bubble up from the networks of a variety of compromised Chinese firms, according to 'Hardcore Charlie,' an anonymous hacker who has claimed responsibility for the hacks. In a statement on the VMWare Web site, Ian Mulholland, Director of VMWare's Security Response Center, said the company acknowledged that a source code file for its ESX product had been leaked online. In a phone interview, Mulholland told Threatpost the company was monitoring the situation and conducting an investigation into the incident."
No need source (Score:3, Funny)
If you're serious you don't need source code anyway. Once you have the executable object code (as a paying customer or whatever), you can reverse engineer source code easily enough.
The original source code just makes it easier to understand how the object code works. And if the original source is sparsely commented, or the object code includes debugging info, the benefits are less.
Source code is most useful for situations where you don't have access to the object code, such as hosted services, embedded systems, etc.