full-disclosure - FrSIRT Puts Exploits up for Sale

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Date: Fri Mar 17 16:33:38 2006
From: gboyce at badbelly.com (gboyce)
Subject: FrSIRT Puts Exploits up for Sale

On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Steven Rakick wrote:

> Give me a break.
>
> If I discovered a technique for turning copper into
> gold and published it on FD, would you consider it
> unethical for someone with more business sense to make
> money off of it?
>
> Look at Redhat...

The Redhat case is different.  They are distributing software that they 
are licensed to distribute in a for-pay manner (the GPL allows for the 
sale of software as long as you don't restrict the rights granted by the 
GPL).

>From what I've heard so far, FrSIRT is selling information and code that 
was not distributed under a clear license.