On: A Kernel Engineer at Microsoft's Answer to “What Do You Think about ReactOS?”

[axelriet]

That sounds reasonable (symbols inadvertently leaked). This would be a plausible explanation for at least some of the naming similarities.

[zzzzzzzzzzz → axelriet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D9ExVc0G10&t=9m53s

[acqq → zzzzzzzzzzz]

The above link points to: “OffensiveCon19 - Alex Ionescu - Keynote - Reversing Without Reversing” and to 9th minute of the talk where it’s very relevant to the current discussion.

[axelriet → acqq]

Someone pointed to that earlier. Great talk about how he gathers information to write his books.

[acqq → axelriet]

See again what I quoted up in the thread related to the NSAKEY:

“Windows NT 4 Service Pack 5 (which had been released unstripped of its symbolic debugging data)”