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satire on vendor responses
From: Georgi Guninski <guninski () guninski com>
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 12:39:14 +0200
here is some satire how some vendors may respond to reported security problems. completely fictional, any resemblance to real world or real events is just a halucination. 1. http://www.microsoft.com financial empire waiting for the fate of previous empires automated response "thanks for being a free beta tester!" the media is told "bug hunters" are irresponsible cyber terrorists. have enough money and enough brain to shutdown hotmail accounts. later a patch is produced, in some cases introducing more problems. visiting malicous web sites is not real exploit scenario. 2. http://www.openbsd.org Theo Deraddt, author of only one remote hole in 2^32 years. imaginary quotes from fabricated email: --------------------- From: Theo de Raadt it is just a crash.
btw, Ted Unangst <tedu@> seems better than you in PR bug handling. have you thought about outsourcing the PR bug handling to him?
he is not better at it. he only works in certain areas. but i work all over the place, and can spray an issue out to the revelant people very often. i'm always around... ---------------------- ---------------------- From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt () cvs openbsd org> and I TOLD you to hold off and then you didn't. Look, you release bugs not to help us. You do it for yourself. Don't take me for a fool. --------------------------- // end of fabricated quotes 3. http://www.kernel.org Linus Torvalds, an engineer, some funny quotes on wikiquotes. Linus: "hmmmm, there might be more ones like this. how did you find it?" 4. http://www.mozilla.org Let there be dragons and foxen mozilla: "we give cash for security bugs" -- where do you want bill gates to go today? _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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