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 2003-12-02
Anonymous

I still remember 6 years ago when Microsoft would state each and every time that this a vulnerability discoverd was theoretical only.

Then people started releasing the actual exploit code, and all of a sudden Microsoft and other vendor's started fixing these 'only theoretical' issues with their p...

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