full-disclosure - Re: it's all about timing

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From: adam at xwt.org (Adam Megacz)
Subject: Re: it's all about timing

Florin Andrei <florin@....com> writes:
> V is right, because not being warned in advance, their customers are
> left to the mercy of script kiddies.

The resasonable conclusion here is that V should be suing the script
kiddies, not H.

> If H is going to publish the exploit without early warning, i'll say
> V has all the rights in the world to sue the crap out of H, and put
> him(her) in jail for one thousand years, and i'll applaud that.

Outlawing the distribution of knowledge is a slippery slope.  I don't
want to go back to the bad old days when "terorrists might use it to
coordinate attacks" was a valid excuse for not letting me use/export
pgp and ssh.

Premature disclosure is bad in the same way that cheating on one's
spouse is bad -- it's undoubtedly a horrible, evil thing to do, but
it's not something that the government should be in the business of
locking people up for.

  - a

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