Re:Irony of ironies.... (Score 3, Interesting)

Doubly ironic if it was a hole that MS has known about for months and not bothered to patch.

Well, I work there now, and after having all my net taps cut off at the router one day because I inadvertently left an unpatched OS (I typically have several on a test box) running overnight (some sniffer demon noticed it hadn't been patched), I'd have to say, "NOT LIKELY!"

Oh, and the file list looks pretty authentic to me- I wrote (tiny) parts of Win2K, and I found my files right where I left them. I didn't read the contents, and I'm sure they would have changed between when I finished and the OS was released 3 years later

IMO, this leak happened the old fashioned way- people of weak character and dubious morality don't value what doesn't belong to them, and do with it as their own blinding egos let them see fit. Social Engineering worked for someone..