Symantec Buys SecurityFocus, among others....

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On Thursday, July 18, 2002 16:39, Jay D. Dyson [mailto:jdyson () treachery net] wrote:

>       Perhaps the best way to beat these cash hounds at their own game
> is to start using a strictly not-for-profit licensing on all released
> advisories and proof-of-concept code which stipulates that for-profit
> companies may not use said information in any way.

Allow me to recommend the use of a trivial encryption algorithm to protect 
exploits and advisories such that any for-profit company must circumvent 
it in order to use it for their own purposes.  Perhaps distribute advisories 
with the "do not copy" flag set on a .pdf. This would give DMCA protection 
to the copyright and allow researchers to sue if their "protection measures" 
are circumvented by companies looking to make money off of the research.  

-E