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About ten years ago, a guy named Thor Larholm used to maintain a page of unpatched MSIE vulnerabilities. Anyone could go there and read about 20-30 vulnerabilities currently exploitable at any given time.

Check wayback for http://www.pivx.com/larholm/unpatched around 2002 to see some samples.

In those days, browser exploits were not really seen as something of value. Everyone thought, "You have to trick the victim into visiting your web page? Pff". That's when hacking was still done by silently hitting vulnerable services, with no user interaction. Crazy how times have changed...

(Sorry, not what you were asking for, but reminded me of that page.)




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