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Re: [greg.morris () sourcefire com: Snort Mitigation and Patch Notification]
From: Matt Kettler <mkettler () evi-inc com>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 14:04:38 -0500
It's unfortunate that some Salespeople to engage in wildly unethical practices. This includes things like inappropriately disclosing confidential terms of contracts and disclosing future pricing adjustments when they are under confidential terms.
This particular kind of unethical behavior does not surprise me in the least. It's really just an extension of the classic "hey, I know I'm not supposed to tell you because it's under NDA, but brand xxxx is increasing the price of their routers next week and I can still arrange to sell you one before they go up in price by a grand."
And well, hey, the guy's already refusing to honor your request to stop contacting you, so he's already a spammer.. so why not add unethical pre-disclosure of confidential information to the mix?
At 12:19 PM 3/3/2003 -0500, Karl A. Krueger wrote:
A sales representative at Sourcefire, whom I asked some months ago to cease contacting me, today sent me unsolicited commercial email (spam). The odd thing about this spam is that it alleged an (as yet) undisclosed vulnerability in Snort's RPC decoding routines. Is it conventional for vendor sales representatives to use undisclosed vulnerability notices as a "teaser" in unsolicited commercial email? This strikes me as rather problematic. Thoughts?
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- [greg.morris () sourcefire com: Snort Mitigation and Patch Notification] Karl A. Krueger (Mar 03)
- Re: [greg.morris () sourcefire com: Snort Mitigation and Patch Notification] Matt Kettler (Mar 03)