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eBay pulls vulnerability auction
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-12-09

Online auction giant eBay shut down the bidding for a vulnerability in Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program on Thursday, saying that the sale of flaw research violates the site's policy against encouraging illegal activity.

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eBay pulls vulnerability auction 2005-12-10
Anonymous
Quoth the article:

> "The listing was immediately reviewed and pulled from the site for violating our policy against

promoting illegal activity--hacking," England said in an e-mail to SecurityFocus.

So `illegal´ means here ``whatever MS doesn't like´´, right? What puts me off is that even y...

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