Re: [greg.morris () sourcefire com: Snort Mitigation and Patch Notification]

[Matt Kettler <mkettler () evi-inc com>]

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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