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Re: HP Full Disclosure Story
From: full-disclosure () lists netsys com (Isaak Bloodlore)
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 09:42:21 -0700
Quoting Georgi Guninski (guninski () guninski com):
Just take a look at real world. When you buy a beer or a car and then find a bug in it, you may disclose the bug as you wish. (As bonus, both beer and cars come with warranties, unlike warez).
This analogy can be made even further. If a mother finds a flaw with one of her toddlers toys which could potentially make it swallow parts of it, notifies the vendor and he shrugs it off or fails to recall the toy, he's in deep legal trouble. If the mother goes to the press, knowing the vendor WILL shrug it off and potentially endanger unsuspecting customers, she's a hero and the vendor will get public and judicative heat. I can not imagine the public outcry if said vendor would threaten or even sue the mother, for demonstrating the flaw. Simple fact is, that it has not made it into the brains of public servants, that a software flaw CAN potentially endanger millions of people - and the vendors do a great job of keeping it that way.
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