full-disclosure - Re: security industry software license

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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:45:55 -0400
From: <Glenn.Everhart@...se.com>
To: <xploitable@...il.com>, <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: security industry software license

Recall that government licenses historically serve mainly to limit the size of
a field and enrich those who get licensed, and exclude a number of competent
people.

Personally I do not favor such measures...speaking for myself here.

Glenn Everhart


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[mailto:full-disclosure-bounces@...ts.grok.org.uk]On Behalf Of n3td3v
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 10:39 AM
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Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] security industry software license


>>let's go there anyway, and if hd moore doesn't comply, we can just
>>slap some sort of law on the license to make it against the law
>>not to
>>require that downloaders have the license.
>
> While we are at it, why don't we just impose government
> restrictions on all security related books and since a lot of the
> technical security issues can be found in computer science
> textbooks, lets impose a restriction on them as well.

no, let's just keep it to security software.

> Criminals would still be just as capable of creating their own tools and using them.

So let them, ... because they haven't registered with the scheme
(which criminal programmers are unlikely to do, or want to do), they
are easier to deal with under law, and so are the people using the
software.

> I think if you did some research, which I know is a difficult thing
> for you to do, you'd find that the use of Metasploit contributes to
> a very minor percentage of crime.

show me *your* research that proves that?

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