full-disclosure - Re: security industry software license

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Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:51:42 -0400
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: n3td3v <xploitable@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: security industry software license

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:31:06 BST, n3td3v said:
> there should be a central license that people apply for to use
> software like metasploit.

You don't want to go there.  They start requiring licenses to have Metasploit
or Snort or Nessus, it's a slippery slope, and they'll start requiring a
background check and a basic clue test before you're allowed to use an email
client other than Outlook, gmail, or hotmail.

And then where would you be?

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