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Fwd: fuck symantec & boycott bugtraq
From: ratel <ratel () mailvault com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 17:00:08 -0500 (EST)
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(snip) They went out of their way to intentionally remove a feature from the public database. It's not like they've decided it's too much work to keep maintaining or something, they've got paying customers for the commercial version. I can only imagine that this was a policy decision because Symantec didn't want to be seen as hosting the exploits they are trying to protect their customers against. Same reason they don't make malicious code samples available to the public.
Corporate ass-covering and profiteering at its worst. No great shock there. Not that any of this matters, in the long run: the only people this is going to impact in the slightest are script kiddies (the standard variety, as well as hidebound ""professionals"" firmly attached to the corporate teat) too stupid or lazy to research the information themselves. The community will adapt, one way or another. Those left behind will have only themselves to blame. I say anything which speeds up the Darwinian course of events can only be a good thing. Let's hear it for natural selection. Ratel. *** "Americans used to roar like lions for liberty. Now we bleat like sheep for security." - Norman Vincent Peale. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: MailVault 2.2 from Laissez Faire City http://www.mailvault.com iQA/AwUAPiCT0uYNtyh3zif9EQJSRwCfSrfi9LtzXPMa9mHKxso+BtGVMF4AoJDe qq50xusT9pgg4K4OKm/ucoUK =A4oR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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