I am posting this In reference to the recent Wired article which Richard Smith posted to this list. Symantec fully supports information sharing on threats and vulnerabilities and believes it is an important tool for consumers and IT professionals to gain a measure of early warning of potential attacks. The Bugtraq mailing list, maintained as an independent entity under the SecurityFocus brand, remains one of the most respected and open sources for security information and early alerting by security professionals worldwide and full disclosure is *critical to the integrity of the Bugtraq community*. With regards to cyber crime we need more and higher quality resources for law enforcement to work on computer forensics, and we need cooperation from government and industry to assist prosecutors in building cases against attackers. Given the increase in the number of security threats and the availability of online tools we also believe that the industry should focus on training and educating today???s youth about the ethics of computer crime and its affects and impact on victims. These are not simply my words but also an official Symantec statement. Cheers, -al Alfred Huger Senior Director Engineering Symantec Security Response ----- End forwarded message ----- [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]