full-disclosure - Exploits Selling / Buying

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Date: Wed Jun  8 04:45:40 2005
From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: Exploits Selling / Buying 

On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 11:15:45 +0300, Georgi Guninski said:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 02:54:49PM -0700, Eric Paynter wrote:
> > Clearly the original post was either a troll or a fraud. We don't need to
> > keep telling him how weak the business model is.
> 
> you should also tell idefense how weak their business model is (check in
> their advisories the difference between "clients notified" and "gone public").
> 
> it is strange how people aprove a bloated u$a corp, but flame semianonymous
> poster :)

The fact that iDefense is doing it as well doesn't make it any less weak a model.

It may be quite workable when you're the only company doing it - but if another
company starts doing it as well, you end up with a price war likely to take out
at least one of the competitors.

If nothing else, the presence of competition will likely soon tell us what the
*real* value of an exploit is, as opposed to what iDefence has been paying :)
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