Re: EXPLOITS FOR SALE (AUCTION SITE)

["jt5944-27a" <jt5944 () hushmail com>]

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On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 19:27:58 -0600 George Ou
<george_ou () lanarchitect net> wrote:
> Michal,
>
> I completely agree with you about the ethics of
> selling exploits to the black-market.  However,
> there needs to be a reasonable alternative to
> working for a "thank you" from the vendor.  Very
> knowledgeable people who spend their valuable
> time tracking down bugs deserve to be able to
> make a living and they deserve to get paid.  If
> there were a reasonable finder's fee paid by the
> vendor, then a lot of conscionable researchers
> will go the legitimate route even if they can
> make more money selling it to the black-market.
>
> George

thank you? okay - thank you for creating this wonderful software
that we use. thank you for listening to our defect requests and
thank you for addressing them in a meaningful time frame. but thank
you for finding bugs? are you on drugs?

they didnt ask you to look for defects. this sounds like those
people who paint house numbers on your curb and then want to be
paid even through you never said to paint the numbers. or those
windshield washers who want you to pay them for smearing your
window when you didnt ask for it. the only people who should be
paid to find vulnerabilities are the people asked to find
vulnerabilities.

should we pay burglars for breaking into our homes? and what about
open source projects? should nonprofit groups be forced to pay for
defects that they never asked people to look for? if they dont pay
then should we stop looking?

companies that pay for exploits are honest about it. zdi and vcp
let their customers know about risks before the rest of the world.
the bounty comes from their customer registration fees. customers
pay to hear about exploits first.
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