[96170] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UK ISP threatens security researcher
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Fri Apr 20 12:28:23 2007
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:25:03 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Stephen Wilcox <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
Cc: Will Hargrave <will@harg.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070420145120.GL25191@mail4.tck.telecomplete.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Stephen Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:10:06PM -0500, Gadi Evron wrote:
> >
> > I am generally worried about the trend that is emerging of reporting
> > security issues resulting in legal threats.
>
> well in this case i dont know the nature of the threat but asking the guy to hold back the passwords seems reasonable
>
> what other examples are there as you suggest a trend in hushing security vulns?
Replying off-list.
Gadi.
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> Steve
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