Symantec Buys SecurityFocus, among others....

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Sean Kelly wrote:
> I joined this list to see if it would serve any supplemental value to
> Bugtraq and the other security-related resources out there.  So far, all I
> see is politics and criticism of Symantec and SecurityFocus. Am I mistaken
> that this list was intended (and spammed/advertised) to be for full
> disclosure security issues? If I am not mistaken, could such politics
> related stuff be moved to a different list, as it seems to me that it is
> politics and commercialism that you are complaining about in the first
> place.
>
> In other words, can't we just move on with it and stay on topic of the
> list? Or was this list created to allow people to whine about SecurityFocus
> and Symantec?

That's what you get with an unmoderated list.  People complain about things 
and send flames. Then they complain about the complaining, and flame people 
for sending flames.  This is the first unmoderated list I've subscribed to 
in years (out of curiosity.)  There's a reason. :)

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