RE: Moot choices, a sort of DD media party

[Cesar <sqlsec () yahoo com>]

Just a comment about this article
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11230 
I haven't tried the Coverity tool mentined there but i
think naming Oracle as a customer don't have any
benefit, the first thing that comes to my mind is that
the tool doesn't work well (i'm just describing the
message i'm getting, i bet it is a really good tool).
I think the marketing guys from that company should
think what message the public is getting when naming
some customers. It's like saying that the tool was
used to audit Internet Explorer 5.X. Who cares Oracle
is unbreakable.



Cesar.

--- "Aleksander P. Czarnowski" <alekc () avet com pl>
wrote:

> Actually a bit related - but instead of operating on
> binary level we
> have a source code analysis approach presented here:
> http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11230
>
> The whole disclosure debate is similar to the one
> regarding exploit
> publication etc. and I don't get really get it. The
> only explanation I
> can see it that fact that 99,99 of people who flood
> such debates with
> emails are not capable of doing real research or
> programming but they
> still want to be part of game.
>
> Just 2 cents
> Cheers,
> Aleksander Czarnowski
> AVET INS
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dave Aitel [mailto:dave () immunitysec com] 
> > Sent: 1 lipca 2005 16:37
> > To: dailydave
> > Subject: [Dailydave] Moot choices, a sort of DD
> media party
> > Reverse engineering patches making disclosure a
> moot choice? 
> > Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-07-01
> >
> > When Microsoft released limited information on a
> critical 
> > vulnerability in Internet Explorer last month,
> reverse 
> > engineer Halvar Flake decided to dig deeper....
> http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11235
>
> My fav line:
>
> "Many people seem to pour time into the disclosure
> debate that should be
> spent elsewhere," [Halvar Flake] said. "It's
> fruitless and boring and
> has been for a few years."
>
> -dave
>
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