Full Disclosure: Re: Right, or wrong?

["Brian Eaton" <eaton.lists () gmail com>]

On 8/7/07, Sol_Invictus <sol () haveyoubeentested org> wrote:
> My 2 cents?  Anyone trying to sell a bug to the vendor with the problem is
> extortion.  Feel free to sell it to others, but only AFTER giving the vendor
> a chance to fix it.  If the vendor ignores you then that's what FD is all
> about... but please lets be responsible out there!
As far as some vendors are concerned, threatening full disclosure is
equivalent to extortion.  I don't know what lawyers would think of
that definition.

- Brian

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