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CptPicard
February 11th, 2008, 12:07 AM
Slashdot carries an interesting story (http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/11/0159238&from=rss) about the "business model" of Russian security researchers. OSS automatically makes pulling this kind of crap so much more difficult... unless the security hole is really obscure and difficult to figure out.

Got to love the first comment about "intellectual property" :)

Washer
February 11th, 2008, 12:21 AM
It's already happened (http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/11/1818241&from=rss) in OSS. Government pays business to uncover holes. Slashdot's just bitching over price.