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Re: Hacker watchdog group in the works
From: InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 03:40:10 -0600 (CST)
Forwarded from: Darren Reed <darrenr () reed wattle id au> In some email I received from InfoSec News, sie wrote: [...]
"You either participate in the Responsible Disclosure Forum, or you're a black hat bent on being malicious, end of story," he wrote in the introduction to the guidelines. "Too much money, too many individuals and too much of the world's communication rely on responsible disclosure for it to be continued to be seen as a discussion worth debating."
[...] That's really uningenious, using Bush's stance on terrorism as a model for disclosure of security vulnerabilities. Furthermore, I do not see why the free exchange of information between people classes them as someone out to do harm (i.e. black-hat). What has happened to those great American ideals of "freedom of speach" ? Oh, that's right, they conflict with the goals of corporate America, c.f. DMCA. These people seem to understand the problem (risk, etc) but not the problem. The problem isn't that these security vulnerabilities get announced to the world but that they exist _at all_. This is treating the symptom, not the cause. Darren "America has a great consitution but has spent the last 200 years trying to legislate against it." - anonymous - ISN is currently hosted by Attrition.org To unsubscribe email majordomo () attrition org with 'unsubscribe isn' in the BODY of the mail.
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