Exploit Code on Trial

Exploit Code on Trial
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2003-11-23

Security pros gathering at a Stanford University Law School conference on responsible vulnerability disclosure Saturday harmonized on the principle that vendors should be privately notified of holes in their products, and given at least some time to produce a patch before any public disclosure is made. But there was pronounced disagreement on the question of whether or not researchers should publicly release proof-of-concept code to demonstrate a vulnerability.

Exploit Code on Trial 2003-11-24
Anonymous

Exploit code definately should stay. Some descriptions of how the vulnerability works gets fudged as it is passed along. I trust exploit code more than the description of how it's done. Besides that, the code let's you get dirty with the vulnerability and shows you exactly how to do it. Once you kno...

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