* Len Rose wrote on Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:22 -0500:
 [...] 
> With the recent evidence that CERT informed it's paying members about the 
> Sapphire SQL worm before the rest of the world should now indicate that 
> they too are not a useful resource for timely and open security information.
 [...] 
> and the security information it hopes to provide 
> may well become illegal (at least here in the US)
> 
> To summarize my opinion, I feel that security information must simply be
> made available to as many people as possible as quickly as possible, and
> let corporations, systems staff, and security professionals handle the
> problems. "The public has a right to know.." 

So we need a non-US OpenCERT?

When the US laws make it illegal to know about incidents, I think
finally incidents will need to be reported for and from non-US
only, hum.

Aren't the current practices here looking like steps backward?
Still confused...

oki,

Steffen

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