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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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Exploit Code on Trial 2003-12-02
Anonymous
The moment somebody releases an advisory that particular product has a flaw at whatever service (RPC exploit) the whole internet community concentrates to find the flaw. A significant portion of the bug hunting is to know where to look for. In any advisory (no code yet) the researchers release enoug...

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