On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 09:18, H D Moore wrote:

Agree absolutely with the HD's "rant". A V companies are fighting the
same battle now :(  Someone has to make a stand and get some case law
established, hopefully someone big like Symantec will -- rumour has it
that the next corporate release of SAV will have detects for spyware and
Adware.

IANAL (esp in US ;) but I can not see how there can be any legal
justification for censorship, this is just plain bullying.

> 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.

They will go after whoever writes them so not only will they have to be
distributed anonymously they will also have to be written anonymously :(

-- 
Russell Fulton, Computer and Network Security Officer.
The University of Auckland, New Zealand.

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