"You have this ideal vision of doing something
for the greater good," said David Litchfield,
managing director of Next Generation Security
Software Ltd. of London, who acknowledged that
a small bit of his code might have been used in
the attack. "I will probably no longer publish such code."
Perhaps David can put together a longer message for Bugtraq and
Full-Disclosure on his changing views of publishing proof-of-concept
code for security vulnerabilities.
The following quote from David Litchfield appeared in a front-page
article in today's Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57550-2003Jan28.html
"You have this ideal vision of doing something
for the greater good," said David Litchfield,
managing director of Next Generation Security
Software Ltd. of London, who acknowledged that
a small bit of his code might have been used in
the attack. "I will probably no longer publish such code."
Perhaps David can put together a longer message for Bugtraq and
Full-Disclosure on his changing views of publishing proof-of-concept
code for security vulnerabilities.
Richard M. Smith
http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com
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