Re: IDS (ISS) and reverse engineering

["Lan Guy" <rlanguy () hotmail com>]

1) you too can get some exclusive stuff
http://members.microsoft.com/consent/Info/Default.aspx
But you have to pay.

2) ISS have also written some of the Technical Reference - Security for MS
Windows 2000.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "V.O." <vosipov () tpg com au>
To: <full-disclosure () lists netsys com>
Cc: <focus-ids () securityfocus com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 11:15 AM
Subject: [Full-disclosure] IDS (ISS) and reverse engineering


> Recently I've got to listen to a marketing pitch by an ISS guy. He was
going
> along the lines of "our X-force reverse-engineered Microsoft RPC libraries
> and created signatures..." and "we use protocol decoding, so we
> reverse-engineered various closed-source protocols in order to create out
> decoders".
>
> What struck me - isn't this kind of activity actually illegal in the US?
To
> which extent it is possible to disassemble Windows code? And if it is
> illegal, then aren't their customers (plus many other IDSes, with the
> exclusion of Snort, probably) in danger - what if Microsoft or whoever
else
> sues ISS for doing this? :)
>
> I'm puzzled.
>
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