because when she gets 0wn3d she can be all like 'ruh roh, well, 0day can happen to anyone'
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Benjamin Franz <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
