full-disclosure - Re: Apple IOS security issue pre-advisory record

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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:51:18 -0600
From: Aaron Toponce <aaron.toponce@...il.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Apple IOS security issue pre-advisory record

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 05:29:28PM +0000, Thor (Hammer of God) wrote:
> Making a conclusion of community behavior, good or bad, based on some
> indication of a number of clicks on some link is non sequitur.   I
> actually don't see any reason why one would be surprised by a "security
> community" following links anyway.  I've got a VM specifically used for
> this type of thing, and I know many others do as well.  Many probably
> *want* the link to be malicious so they can analyze and harvest any
> potential attack and see if it is new or interesting.   There is no
> corollary to qualified behavior from some ambiguous report that "300
> security researchers who should have known better."

The link is also publicly accessible via the browser and via RSS:

    http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Mar/262
    http://seclists.org/rss/fulldisclosure.rss

Assuming "300 security researchers" clicked a link is silly.

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