True. But either way, the credibility of the offer is extrememly low. Some bozo has been "solicited" to sell a company...who is he? Is he an attorney? A corporate raider? Someone who's gathered the freely available info and wants to make a quick sleezy buck?
If this were a serious offer, I'd at least expect a phone number and website (of the company brokering the sale). Not a "reply to my googlemail account"... -r --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 05:46:03 PST, System Outage said: > > > Why would someone buy a security vulnerability database company? > Theres > > already free security vulnerability databases out there. Try this > one I > > recently found, you can search for anything you want > http://groups.google.com/ > > group/n3td3v and its free. > > Geez. Somebody hand me a sharp wooden stake, a good mallet, and some > garlic > and holy water just in case... ;) > > I'm sure you can *search* for anything you want there. The value of > a database > is, however, directly related to its ability to return useful > information. > > 5,000 postings that all say "wow leet hole in ntp a few years ago" is > worth > nowhere near as much as one detailed technical posting of how that > exploit > leveraged a one-byte buffer overrun into a complete rooting of the > box.... > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
