full-disclosure - Symantec Buys SecurityFocus, among others....

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Message-ID: <005301c22f2a$a0743f20$0aaca5c2@vitalograph.ie>
From: fulldisclose at uuuppz.com (James Martin)
Subject: Symantec Buys SecurityFocus, among others....

> Release exploits with the vaguest of descriptions as to how they work
> (lost for examples -- just copy'n'paste the "technical bits" of some
> of the security bulletins from MS...).  Have the _only_ PoC code a
> compiled binary loaded with copyright notices forbidding reversing,
> etc.  Be sure to use some "encryption" (extremely trivial is OK as
> complexity doesn't matter; can you say XOR?) in the PoC to "protect"
> the important secret (generally the overflow "string" itself).  Be
Ummm surely just sniffing the exploit string being sent, will reveal the
string itself in 99% of cases (remote exploits that is). Is watching the
data a program sends across a network reverse engineering??

Regards
James