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Group: Anti-hacking laws can hobble Net security
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-06-15

Jeremiah Grossman has long stopped looking for vulnerabilities in specific Web sites, and even if he suspects a site to have a critical flaw that could be compromised by an attacker, he's decided to keep quiet.

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Group: Anti-hacking laws can hobble Net security 2007-06-16
Anonymous
I see two main problems with this. First, what keeps a malicious attacker from claiming to be a researcher when caught? Second, the skills of security researchers varies greatly. While Jeremiah might be careful, some other idiot might cause a lot of problems for admins.

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Group: Anti-hacking laws can hobble Net security 2007-08-22
Ben Wright, hack-igations.com







 

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