RE: Pre-Scanning for Marketing

["Maxim Kostioukov" <maxim () francoudi com>]

I believe unless the owner were legally (i.e. financially) responsible
for their security flaws such pre-scanning would be useless.

Moreover penetration testing without written permission in advance might be legally
turned against the tester.

In majority of cases I got negative/zero reaction so I would not bother.

-----Original Message-----
From: Password Crackers, Inc. [mailto:pwcrack () pwcrack com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 5:11 PM
To: pen-test () securityfocus com
Subject: Pre-Scanning for Marketing


I am interested if anyone on the list has ever tested or implemented a
marketing program that involved pre-scanning (wired or wireless) a prospect
and then sending a letter or email describing potential vulnerabilities and
offering assistance in closing these vulnerabilities.  I have never done
this because of the anticipated negative reaction, but I am curious as to
what the outcome was if anyone else has done it.  Single instances would be
interesting, but I am more curious if anyone has implemented this in a more
broad-based way and has positive and/or negative response rate statistics.

Bob Weiss
Password Crackers, Inc.


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