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Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 14:58:31 -0400
From: Scott Arciszewski <scott@...iszewski.me>
To: fulldisclosure@...lists.org
Subject: Re: [FD] What do you think of Trollc?

Brilliant but never going to work; it will undoubtedly gain a lot of
opposition that will probably prevent it from getting off the ground.
Usually through weev getting V&hammered again :(

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Philip Cheong <isctsf@...il.com> wrote:

> From https://www.startjoin.com/trollc
>
> *Right now if you're a software exploit developer and you want to monetize
> your craft to pay your rent, there's only one consistent way to do so: sell
> your software exploits. The major customer for these are oppressive
> governments, chiefly that of the United States. We know what the United
> States does with software exploits: it uses them to illegally spy on its
> own citizens, and attack peaceful nations around the world.*
>
> *I need your help to create a company that will ethically disclose software
> vulnerabilities to the public. For this I need help getting the filing fees
> necessary to incorporate a hedge fund. I want to continue bringing issues
> in companies that put you at risk to light, and short the stocks of those
> companies when I do so. I will only get paid when large corporations being
> negligent get punished. This will create a structure by which security
> researchers including myself will still make a living, only now by
> disclosing problems instead of selling them in secret to criminal
> governments.*
>
> What say you? Is this brilliant? Or stupid? Awesome? But never going to
> work?
>
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