full-disclosure - M$ puts bounty out for Blaster and Sobig culprits

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From: ebowser at i-trap.net (Eric Bowser)
Subject: M$ puts bounty out for Blaster and Sobig
	culprits

What about a bounty for the original engineer who wrote the flawed OS
components?

On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 10:02, Vic Vandal wrote:
> M$ is offering $250K for info leading to the arrest of those
> who released Blaster and/or Sobig.  See the details here:
> http://news.com.com/2100-7355_3-5102110.html?tag=nefd_top
> 
> One outcome of this will be severely limiting bragging about
> pulling off such sploits.
> And one would think those actually guilty should be real busy
> right now erasing any/all evidence (that they didn't take care
> of long ago).
> 
> Maybe M$ should put out a bounty for reporting bugs in their
> crappy software without going public instead.  That might be
> more effective.
> 
> Peace,
> Vic
> 
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