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Full Disclosure and the Window of Exposure

Contributed by Dengue on from the bruce.schneier dept.

Bruce Schneier's excellent CryptoGram newsletter this month features: Full Disclosure and the Window of Exposure , a discussion of the arguments and philosophies present in the never ending disclosure debate.

oops , didn't look close enough, this is from the september CryptoGram. Look here for October's CryptoGram.

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  1. By saad () bsdguy@docisland.org on mailto:bsdguy@docisland.org

    The cryptogram newsletter you are speaking about is date sept, 2000! this month's cryptogram newsletter hasn't been published yet (or so it seems).

  2. By Noryungi () n o r y u n g i @ y a h o o . c o m on http://www.multimania.com/frenchbsd

    is this one .

    The above link is Schneier answer to M$ Scott Culp attack on full disclosure. Hope this helps!

  3. By skoll crohshah () ~@!~.mil on mailto:~@!~.mil


    Bruce's article just rehashes what is known- that
    there is a window of vulnerability from discovery to pathching. He reiterates his philosophy of "transcending the patch cycle" which his esposes better in other news letters. He plugs his own company as the extension of that philosophy, so I guess we can all purchase his monitoring service for our home DSL/Cable based lans.

    It's a pretty unspectacular little piece.

    A more insightful piece might have gone into the strategic significance of why closed-source companies are now bashing the full-disclosure with vigor (i.e. the repeated black eyes they are getting, and will continue to get), the probability of success using legal means as the extension of their PR campaigns to "outlaw" full disclosure (as seems likely), and so on.


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