Nb5s $bp2s writes,
...the case has killed the hacker ethic. "If I saw someone on the Internet with a security weakness, at this point I would be reluctant to act the Good Samaritan and report it," said Jeffrey Kegler, an independent software consultant in Sunnyvale Calif. "If I saw weakness in Intel's machine, I'd keep it to myself."
If I saw a weakness in Intel's machine I would happily inform the company in the safest way possible: posting it to Cypherpunks, alt.destroy.microsoft, comp.sys.intel and any other appropriate newsgroup, via anonymous server. I'm sure the information would wind up in the correct hands _eventually_. Not that I'm suggesting anything, of course. |^^^^^^Please don't add "*@aol.com" to your twit filter. Thank you.^^^^^^| | mklprc@aol.com | "Give them a light and they'll | | mp@moonmac.com <*> follow it anywhere!" | | http://www.teleport.com/~mklprc/ | -- Firesign Theater | | No Microsoft products were used in the production of this message. | \----smuggle FSF terrorist BATF (fnord) FBI nuclear Saddam PGP Clinton---/