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"Anyone who openly provides exploit code should be legally responsible for the effects. If a worm using the exploit produces $1 billion worth of damage, the one who published the code should be reimbursing the cost from prison earnings for, say, 20 years."
What you'll get is a bunch of software makers then not caring about fixing bugs since by law they know bugs can't be shown to the public.
That would entirely defeat the purpose of them. Bugs would surface from underground instead and make it even harder to track who disclosed them.
It won't work what you're suggesting.
"Let's limit the damage to the company which is being lax about a vulnerability, rather than punishing such companies by damaging many people who have no responsibility for the situation."
For once I'll somewhat agree with you.. at least on this statement. Problem is, we can't wait until it's been exploited for months before the maker will want to patch it. - Posted by: ju1ce Posted on: 08/17/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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