<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Vulnerability Disclosure: Where Do You
Stand?</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">If you see a glaring security hole in
a sensitive application, what will you do? Will you notify the developer?
The users? Other hackers? Sometimes it's best not to be the good Samaritan.
Read about "The Chilling Effect" and also find out why Bruce
Schneier thinks full and open disclosure is a "damned good idea"
while Marcus Ranum says disclosure of vulnerabilities is a marketing ploy
by vendors that was never really designed to further security and has only
succeeded in fostering a "grey-market economy in exploits." Do
you think disclosure only aids attackers?</font>
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