On 06/11/2010 02:40 AM, Christian Sciberras wrote: > In my humble opinion, he could have waited a couple more days just in > case Microsoft decided to do the unprecedented. > In which case, I progressive change of policies at Microsoft are > better than a couple of users getting hacked from pron sites... As I said: Travis indicated in his original post he believes the exploit *was already being used in the wild*. So NOT releasing it wouldn't protect users. It would just keep it "secret" from everyone except Microsoft *and the black hats who were already using it*. While maintaining a false air of intact security for everyone else.
That is better, how? -- Benjamin Franz _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
