RE: Watchfire Free Tools

["Ory Segal" <osegal () watchfire com>]

 Hi All,

I was trying to leave this whole thread alone, but it keeps coming back,
so here is my official response:

The Watchfire PowerTools are a FREE set of tools. As such, we do not use
a licensing mechanism, nor do we "force" people to register in our web
site, in order to download the tools.

The registration form was used in order to allow people to receive
information about the rest of our products, and about future updates for
these tools, that's all - it is NOT a security mechanism or some login
page.

I hope this clears things up,
-Ory



-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Laudanski [mailto:zx () castlecops com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 8:46 PM
To: Ory Segal
Cc: watchfire_free_tools () hushmail com; webappsec () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: Watchfire Free Tools

> Second, it would be nice to see that people who find problems in web 
> sites, contact the vendor first and allow them to fix the problem 
> before publishing a "brave" post like this. Don't you think I'm right?

Welcome to the world of 'full disclosure' debate.  Personally I don't
see this as a website or end user problem.  IMHO it looks good on a
company when it provides a mechanism for folks to download files without
having to register.  I guess this means you didn't want that to happen?

--
Paul Laudanski, Microsoft MVP Windows-Security CastleCops(SM),
http://castlecops.com



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