From: ratel at mailvault.com (ratel)
Subject: Fwd: fuck symantec & boycott bugtraq 

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[Full-Disclosure] Fwd: fuck symantec & boycott bugtraq 

>(snip) They went out of their way 
>to intentionally remove a feature from the public database.  It's not
>like they've decided it's too much work to keep maintaining or 
>something, they've got paying customers for the commercial version.  
>I can only imagine that this was a policy decision because Symantec 
>didn't want to be seen as hosting the exploits they are trying to 
>protect their customers against.  Same reason they don't make 
>malicious code samples available to the public.

Corporate ass-covering and profiteering at its worst. No great shock
there. 

Not that any of this matters, in the long run: the only people this is
going to impact in the slightest are script kiddies (the standard
variety, as well as hidebound ""professionals"" firmly attached to the
corporate teat) too stupid or lazy to research the information
themselves. The community will adapt, one way or another. Those left
behind will have only themselves to blame.


I say anything which speeds up the Darwinian course of events can only
be a good thing. Let's hear it for natural selection. 

Ratel.

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"Americans used to roar like lions for liberty. Now we bleat
like sheep for security." - Norman Vincent Peale.


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