Re: Publishing Findings on Commercial Applications

[mikeiscool <michaelslists () gmail com>]

On 6/14/06, Jezebel Ali <jezebel_ali () hush com> wrote:
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> Greetings Brother and Sister List Members,
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> I have question: If I performing Penetration Test on customer site
> and this customer has a commercial application which is not
> publicly available for download or purchase, do I have a right to
> publish finding of this application to the public without
> mentioning customer name?

Most likely you can't, because your contract will say so.

But either way, if you do it anonymously, who will know! :)


> This application widely used by banking and financial industry and
> not always available to anyone for testing.
>
> Kind regards,
> Jez

-- mic

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