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 2003-11-25
Camel

"The set of users that would use exploit code to protect themselves... is probably much smaller than the set of people who would be put at risk by it,"

I personally used exploit code to verify that MS thin clients were also vulnerable to blaster. This was previously unpublished and the informatio...

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