Re: Malware sharing? People are full of shit [was: Get your computer viruses here!]

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

> Here is how I changed my mind 180 degrees.
>
> Sharing samples is a very problematic issue. It should be done with 
> care. Also, it should be done by the rules of the one sharing. Period.
>
> Further, it should be done in a white-hat baby-ass clean manner.

Yes. But, as far as I can tell, the way this web site works, is anyone can 
upload stuff and anyone can download stuff.

Is that "done with care"? Is that a "white-hat baby-ass clean manner"?

> Still.. I don't know this guy and there are WAYS of doing it and ways of 
> being a blackhat.
>
> He has a head-start as for most AV-ers he already is a blackhat.

Why is that?
 
> Drsolly - you know what's out there, there are no longer practical 
> reasons to keep MOST samples hidden. The moral grounds collapsed 2 years 
> ago or so and traditions and marketing/status-fear keep it from changing.
>
> If you re-examine this issue as not black and white and accept it is an 
> issue not to be addressed in ABSOLUTE MORALITY such as nuclear weapons, 
> I believe you will see it my way, or close.

As you know, I don't have any commercial interest in this field, and as a 
linux user, I don't really have much of a victim-interest either. But it 
still seems wrong to me (and probably illegal in some jurisdictions) to 
set up an anyone-uploads, anyone-downloads web site. I know it's illegal 
in the UK, for example.

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