On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 20:30 +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, William Pitcock wrote:
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 08:31 -0500, John Kristoff wrote:
An ongoing area of work is to build better closed, trusted communities without leaks.
Have you ever considered that public transparency might not be a bad thing? This seems to be the plight of many security people, that they have to be 100% secretive in everything they do, which is total bullshit.
Just saying.
How exactly would being transparent for the following help Internet security:
"I am seeing a new malware infection vector via port 91714 coming from the IP range of 32.0.0.0/8 that installs a rootkit after visiting the web page http://www.trythisoutnow.com/. In addition, it has credit card and pswd stealing capabilities and sends the details to a maildrop at trythisoutnow@gmail.com"
The only upside of being transparent is alerting the miscreant to change the vector and maildrop.
That is not what I mean and you know it. What I mean is: why can't anyone contribute valuable information to the security community? It is next to impossible to meet so-called 'trusted people' if you're new to the game, which is counter-productive. If you're a 15 year old kid and you just discovered a way to own the latest IOS, for example, how do you know who to tell about it? William