[Full-Disclosure] Symantec Buys SecurityFocus, among others....

[Mark Earnest]

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On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Ed Moyle wrote:
> Allow me to recommend the use of a trivial encryption algorithm to protect 
> exploits and advisories such that any for-profit company must circumvent 
> it in order to use it for their own purposes.  Perhaps distribute advisories 
> with the "do not copy" flag set on a .pdf. This would give DMCA protection 
> to the copyright and allow researchers to sue if their "protection measures" 
> are circumvented by companies looking to make money off of the research.  

That sounds good in theory, but in practice any sizable company would 
devour us, regardless of what the law says. The law is immaterial next to 
money. 

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Mark Earnest
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Senior Systems Programmer
ASET/Emerging Technologies
Penn State University

Email: mxe20 at psu.edu
Office Phone: 814-863-2064
Public Key - http://mearnest.oas.psu.edu/gpgkey.txt

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