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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.

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Private first, then public, THEN publish exploit 2003-11-25
Anonymous
Hate to say this ... but that's what CERT was originally used for, and it simply didn't work.

It took months for vendors to actually fix problems. So some white/grey hats just got tired and decided to rapidly publish exploit code.

What motivation does a vendor have to fix code quickly? If it...

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