Re: What to do with a vulerability?

Oliver,
This is a decision you have to make on your own, and I think you should be capable of doing so.

There are many different opinions on this subject, but IMHO full disclosure is always the best option. There are many stories about bugs reported to Microsoft that weren't fixed or about white hat hackers who are treated disrespectfully by Microsoft.

Personnaly I've chosen the Linux path a long while ago, so vulnerabilities in Microsoft code won't affect me. But for the avarage consumer of Windows full disclosure is the best option, because only then Microsoft will be forced to release a patch.

Some links:
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/1437841 http://online.securityfocus.com/news/238

You should try to find out if there are any legal risks before publishing anything! I'm not a citizen of the US, so I don't have much knowledge about US law, but I remember the Adobe incident with that unfortunate Russian hacker and one can't be to carefull.

Good luck,

Filip de Waard

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On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 20:39, Oliver Lavery wrote:
> Hello all,
Received on Mon Jan 20 22:05:28 2003