full-disclosure - Re: Rate Stratfor's Incident Response

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Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:09:00 -0500
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: Gage Bystrom <themadichib0d@...il.com>
Cc: "full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk" <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Rate Stratfor's Incident Response

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:14:54 PST, Gage Bystrom said:

> Exactly. People are mostly being ridiculous atm. If they told you about a
> vuln and did not take advantage of it they are innocent. By all means you
> have the right to investigate and make sure they didn't do anything else,
> but if they didn't they are innocent.

So tell me... who pays for the investigation that makes sure you didn't do
anything else?

Remember that we're talking about people here - and no matter what you consider
"right" in this situation, some poor soul is going to end up saying "I really
wish you hadn't told me about that, because it's 4:45PM on Friday, and my
weekend just got shot all to heck".  For that matter, *you* would say the same
thing at 4:45PM on Friday (and if you wouldn't, you *really* need to get out
more. ;)

> It would be like if someone found your wallet and saw your credit card, ssn
> card(which you shouldn't carry with you), and your drivers license, and
> then found you to give it back. If they didn't do anything with it they are
> fine.

That would be the "I spotted a potential vuln on your website" case, which isn't
so bad.

What's a lot more troubling is the "and here's a secret document proving it"
case - at which point they *have* done something with it.

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