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Message-ID: <20030201221437.D5277@dx.net.de>
From: steffen at dett.de (Steffen Dettmer)
Subject: CERT, Full Disclosure, and Security By Obscurity
* Len Rose wrote on Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:22 -0500:
[...]
> With the recent evidence that CERT informed it's paying members about the
> Sapphire SQL worm before the rest of the world should now indicate that
> they too are not a useful resource for timely and open security information.
[...]
> and the security information it hopes to provide
> may well become illegal (at least here in the US)
>
> To summarize my opinion, I feel that security information must simply be
> made available to as many people as possible as quickly as possible, and
> let corporations, systems staff, and security professionals handle the
> problems. "The public has a right to know.."
So we need a non-US OpenCERT?
When the US laws make it illegal to know about incidents, I think
finally incidents will need to be reported for and from non-US
only, hum.
Aren't the current practices here looking like steps backward?
Still confused...
oki,
Steffen
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