On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, sockz loves you wrote: :If we stop :rewarding wannabe hackers with fame & power security WILL improve.
Am I to understand that sockz and others are agitating for what amounts to shorter chains and smaller cages? Exploits are only seen as weapons because they are demonstratably valid critiques of the inconsistencies and abstractions that an information economy relies upon. They disrupt our suspension of disbelief, and our cultures faith in the ineffable correctness of our machines. I hope there are wannabe hackers out there who will mature to become talented ones, so that they can continue to criticize the logical squalor inflicted upon the Internet by record companies, commercial software vendors, intellectual property monopolists, police states and other naked emperors. Just what is it that you think you are securing by limiting the flow of vulnerability information? The only thing that is secured by censoring the discussion of software vulnerabilities, is ignorance. (And thus maybe, bliss?) -- batz _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
