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Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 15:32:18 -0400
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@...il.com>
To: Brandon Perry <bperry.volatile@...il.com>
Cc: "fulldisclosure@...lists.org" <fulldisclosure@...lists.org>
Subject: Re: [FD] What do you think of Trollc?

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Brandon Perry
<bperry.volatile@...il.com> wrote:
> Not even sure when the last vulnerability that caused any fluctuation in
> the stock markets was.
+!. I'm not sure it ever hurt Sony, and they've had over 40 documented
problems [0, 1, 2, et al]. Some of them were very serious from a data
security perspective.

Jeff

[0] http://attrition.org/security/rant/sony_aka_sownage.html
[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/26/us-sony-stoldendata-idUSTRE73P6WB20110426
[2] http://beta.slashdot.org/story/176757

> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 1:49 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.*

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