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An Internet leak occurs when a party's confidential intellectual property is released to the public on the Internet. Intellectual property ( IP) is a legal field that refers to creations of the mind such as musical literary and artistic works inventions and symbols names The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks Various types of information and data can be, and have been, "leaked" to the Internet, the most common being personal information, computer software and source code, and artistic works such as albums. In Computer science, source code (commonly just source or code) is any sequence of statements or declarations written in some Human-readable An album or record album is a collection of related audio or Music tracks distributed to the public For example, a musical album is leaked if it has been made available to the public on the Internet before its official release date; this musical material is still intended to be confidential.

Source code leaks are usually caused by misconfiguration of software like CVS or FTP which allow people to get source files by exploiting this, by software bugs, or by employees that have access to the sources of part of them revealing the code in order to harm the company. In the field of Software development, the Concurrent Versions System ( CVS) also known as the Concurrent Versioning System, provides a Version A software bug (or just “bug” is an error flaw mistake Failure, fault or “undocumented feature” in a Computer program that prevents it

There were many cases of source code leaks in the history of software development. For example, in 2003 a cracker exploited a security hole in Microsoft's Outlook to get the complete source of Half-Life 2, which was under development at the time. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Software cracking is the modification of Software to remove protection methods Copy prevention, trial/demo version serial number hardware key CD check Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook since Outlook 2003 is a Personal information manager from Microsoft, and is Half-Life 2 is a Science fiction First-person shooter computer game and the sequel to the highly acclaimed Half-Life The complete source was soon available in various file sharing networks. See Shared resource for the conventional meaning of file sharing File sharing refers to the providing and receiving of digital files over a This leak was rumored to be the cause of the game's delay, but later was stated not to be.

Also in 2003, source code to Diebold Election Systems Inc. Premier Election Solutions, formerly Diebold Election Systems Inc voting machines has been leaked. Voting machines are the total combination of mechanical electromechanical or electronic equipment (including Software, Firmware, and documentation required to program Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and Rice University published a damning critique of Diebold's products, based on an analysis of the software. They found, for example, that it would be easy to program a counterfeit voting card to work with the machines and then use it to cast multiple votes inside the voting booth.

Another case involved a partial leak of the source code to Microsoft Windows 2000. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational Computer technology Corporation, which rose to dominate the Home computer Windows 2000 (also referred to as Win2K) is a preemptive, interruptible graphical and business-oriented Operating system designed to work with Two files containing Microsoft source code were circulating on the Internet. One contains a majority of the NT4 source code and the other contains a fraction of the Windows 2000 source code, reportedly about 15% of the total. Windows NT 40 is a preemptive, graphical and business-oriented Operating system designed to work with either Uniprocessor or symmetric This includes some networking code including winsock and inet; as well as some shell code. In computing, the Windows Sockets API, which was later shortened to Winsock, is a technical specification that defines how Windows network It was feared that because of the leak, the number of security exploits would increase due to wider scrutinization of the source code. An exploit (from the same word in the French language, meaning "achievement" or "accomplishment" is a piece of Software, a chunk of data or

In 2004 partial (800mb) proprietary source code that drives Cisco Systems' networking hardware was made available in the internet. The site posted two files of source code written in the C programming language, which apparently enables some next-generation Internet Protocol version 6 functionality. tags please moot on the talk page first! --> In Computing, C is a general-purpose cross-platform block structured Internet Protocol version 6 ( IPv6) is an Internet Layer protocol for packet -switched internetworks. News of the latest source code leak appeared on a Russian security site, SecurityLab.ru.

On January 28, 2008, Nintendo's crossover fighting video game Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii console had a major leak having to do with unconfirmed playable characters. is a Multinational corporation headquartered in Kyoto Japan founded on CrossOver (known before version 60 as CrossOver Office) is the collective name for three commercial and proprietary programs developed by CodeWeavers often abbreviated SSBB or Brawl, is the third installment in the Super Smash Bros The leak was unintentionally started by the Japanese language Wii. is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities com website, which released a video that included small images of not-yet confirmed characters within the game. The website fixed this mistake, but the leak still continued. Websites like YouTube contain screenshots and video gameplay of the unconfirmed characters of the game. YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload view and share Video clips YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees

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