full-disclosure - Re: The Auction Site made Forbes.

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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:05:21 -0400
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: bugtraq@...security.net
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: The Auction Site made Forbes.

On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:23:49 EDT, bugtraq@...security.net said:
> There hasn't been a high profile lawsuit against a vuln researcher for
> finding and selling an 0day at this point (that I can think of) and it's only
> a matter of time before it happens.

Given the number of highly regarded people who have had legal threats against
them already (the DMCA actions against Ed Felton, Cisco against Michael Swan,
and a number of BlackHat and similar presentations that have been withdrawn
after legal threats), It's likely that "a matter of time" is "sooner" rather
than "later", and people should include that in their 0day release planning...

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