This piece will repay your attention. It is the first open-literature discussion of the market for 'exploits' and who is selling what to whom for how much that I have seen.
An 'exploit' is a piece of software that can be used by its developer or a purchaser to penetrate a computer that is using software that has a 'vulnerability', i.e., a design defect, that can be exploited to do so. The largest market---governments are among the customers in it--is for Internet Explorer exploits, but the one for Chrome exploits is growing. There is no discussion of z/OS exploits, but I do not find this reassuring. Our turn will certainly come. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
