Florin Andrei <florinat_private> writes: > V is right, because not being warned in advance, their customers are > left to the mercy of script kiddies. The resasonable conclusion here is that V should be suing the script kiddies, not H. > If H is going to publish the exploit without early warning, i'll say > V has all the rights in the world to sue the crap out of H, and put > him(her) in jail for one thousand years, and i'll applaud that. Outlawing the distribution of knowledge is a slippery slope. I don't want to go back to the bad old days when "terorrists might use it to coordinate attacks" was a valid excuse for not letting me use/export pgp and ssh. Premature disclosure is bad in the same way that cheating on one's spouse is bad -- it's undoubtedly a horrible, evil thing to do, but it's not something that the government should be in the business of locking people up for. - a -- Sick of HTML user interfaces? www.xwt.org _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Full-Disclosureat_private http://lists.netsys.com/mailman/listinfo/full-disclosure
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