full-disclosure - Security Industry Under Scrutiny #4

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From: batsy at vapour.net (batz)
Subject: Security Industry Under Scrutiny #4

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, sockz loves you wrote:

:If we stop
:rewarding wannabe hackers with fame & power security WILL improve.  

Am I to understand that sockz and others are agitating for what
amounts to shorter chains and smaller cages? 

Exploits are only seen as weapons because they are demonstratably
valid critiques of the inconsistencies and abstractions that an 
information economy relies upon. They disrupt our suspension of 
disbelief, and our cultures faith in the ineffable correctness 
of our machines. 

I hope there are wannabe hackers out there who will mature
to become talented ones, so that they can continue to criticize
the logical squalor inflicted upon the Internet by record 
companies, commercial software vendors, intellectual
property monopolists, police states and other naked emperors. 

Just what is it that you think you are securing by limiting the 
flow of vulnerability information? The only thing that is
secured by censoring the discussion of software vulnerabilities, 
is ignorance. 

(And thus maybe, bliss?) 

-- 
batz