I just had a discussion with my father and with my granny about security issues ignated by the previous post.
My father and my granny say that one should not spread the information about a vulnerability and the way it may be exploited. One only should say that there is one and that one should change something and what to change.
I think in the contrary that when I do not tell how to exploit a big security hole no one will give it trust. Everyone will say that it is only a hoax and not truth because fixing the potential security hole is very expensive (to fix the security hole from the previous post you need to spend 100Eur or more).
I ask you for comments and statements about that. Also links to pages dealing with this problematic.
black and write
on Aug 25th, 2005
@ 3:36 pm:
Whether or not publish a security hole?
Esden just had a discussion with his elders (is there actually a word that describes more than one generation of ancestors (’ancestors’ would sound so… dead)) about security.
As so many others, his father and his grandmother don̵…