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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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Re: eBay pulls vulnerability auction 2005-12-11
Anonymous
>Look: a bread knife can be put to good as well as >to bad uses. Still, the bread knife isn't illegal >/per se/. Killing someone with it is, of course.

>Knowledge about flaws is all the same. You nay >use this knowledge to avoid security holes, to >fix the product or (GASP!) to avoid the product ...

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