<rant> That is absolutely ridiculous; Nessus routinely includes plugins which produce a warning when questionable or oft-insecure software is discovered. How is this different from stating that any telnet service should be disabled as it is inherently insecure. If the problem is the 'spyware' label; remove it, but include a description of what the product does and why it could be a security issue. Granted, just because you are not slandering them doesn't mean that they cant sue you for it anyways :( </rant>
Anyone have ideas on ways to prevent plugin 'censorship' like this in the future? Hosting a separate site for these types of plugins isn't a long-term solution; it appears that they would go after Renaud et al regardless of who wrote the check or where it was hosted anyways. -HD On Tuesday 15 June 2004 10:00, Renaud Deraison wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 02:08:55PM +0100, Rochford, Paul wrote: > > pound_format_strings.nasl: script_id(12007); > > worldflash_detection.nasl: script_id(12007); > > This is expected. wordflash_detection has been removed in the past > because the authors of this software claim it's not a spyware, but the > plugin was still around. The problem is that these guys threatened *me* > yesterday with a lawsuit because *other* sites out there who routinely > mirror the Nessus plugins (ASPs, security sites, whatever) still have > this plugin in their database, so the only way to solve this problem is > to force people to delete the old worldflash plugin by replacing it by > another one with the same id. > > > -- Renaud > _______________________________________________ > Nessus mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
