Re: Re: The info-sec circle of life...

[João Miguel Neves <joao () silvaneves org>]

On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 17:03, Gregory Kornblum wrote:
> > Blackhat now pimps his skillz/collection of tarballs to the 
> > highest bidder for corporate jobs of "espionage" against 
> > their competitors....and as the holes are unknown, there is 
> > no way to protect against those holes by the internet at large.
> >
> > Its like turning a kid loose in a candy store, and the 
> > storekeeper is blind, and deaf.
> >
> > And don't tell me that blackhats have any scruples that would 
> > compell them to not do this....utter bullshit.
>
> Yes I am not saying that this creates a perfect world. Just a better one. I
> would rather have 5 malicious geniuses than 50 malicious dumb kids any day.
> Right now we have both.
Strange, my experience is that without full-disclosure you have 5
malicious geniuses and 50 malicious dumb kids and 50% of users with a
program that gives them extra privileges on the machines they work. But
hey, I was only the sysadmin back then, so I may be wrong.

-- 
                                                João Miguel Neves

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