full-disclosure - Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author of Sasser worm

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Message-ID: <414F29AC.2050005@alicampbell.org.uk>
From: fdisclosure at alicampbell.org.uk (Ali Campbell)
Subject: Scandal: IT Security firm hires the author
 of  Sasser worm

Bart.Lansing@...ls.com wrote:

> Face it, people who can break security are valuable to 
> those trying to create it.

I would agree with you if this guy had discovered the LSASS 
vulnerability himself. But if I remember correctly, it was discovered by 
those clever people at eeye. Now I don't consider myself to be the 
ultimate coder - the minutae of the Linux do_brk exploit, for example, 
went way over my head - but I reckon I could have written Sasser given 
the details of the vulnerability. Writing a worm for a known exploit 
isn't rocket science.

So yes, I think this is a slap in the face to decent, law abiding 
programmers everywhere, particularly those who don't have a job.

Ali