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Zero-day sales not "fair" -- to researchers
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-06-01

Two years ago, Charles Miller found a remotely exploitable flaw in a common component of the Linux operating system, and as many enterprising vulnerability researchers are doing today, he decided to sell the information.

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Re: Zero-day sales not "fair" -- to researchers 2007-11-01
Mr. Clean
Well, fortunately for us, theres people out there who are kind enough to release them. Also, the vulnerability he found was an extremely big vulnerability. It was in linux, an OS that the government uses on some of their servers! For instance, your not going to get $50,000 for a php-nuke SQL Injecti...

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