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Re: For Sale: Security Vulnerability Database Company
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 13:12:16 -0500
On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 05:46:03 PST, System Outage said:
Why would someone buy a security vulnerability database company? Theres already free security vulnerability databases out there. Try this one I recently found, you can search for anything you want http://groups.google.com/ group/n3td3v and its free.
Geez. Somebody hand me a sharp wooden stake, a good mallet, and some garlic and holy water just in case... ;) I'm sure you can *search* for anything you want there. The value of a database is, however, directly related to its ability to return useful information. 5,000 postings that all say "wow leet hole in ntp a few years ago" is worth nowhere near as much as one detailed technical posting of how that exploit leveraged a one-byte buffer overrun into a complete rooting of the box....
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