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
trythisout...@gmail.com"
The only upside of being transparent is alerting the miscreant to change
the vector and maildrop.
Regards,
Hank
