[Full-disclosure] [SECUNIA] Vendors still use the legal weapon

2007-12-06 Thread Thomas Kristensen
In these days, one would have believed that vendors have learned the lesson not to threaten with legal actions to withhold and suppress significant information about vulnerabilities in their products. Well, nonetheless, Secunia just received a sequel of letters from Autonomy, likely not known to

Re: [Full-disclosure] [SECUNIA] Vendors still use the legal weapon

2007-12-06 Thread Simon Smith
I would have thought that by this time businesses would be more savvy to the entire vulnerability disclosure process. They don't seem to realize that in most cases its more damaging to try to quash research than it is to accept it with open arms. That is after all because quashing research is