Administriva: Anniversary

[Len Rose <len () netsys com>]

One year ago today we created this list in the hopes it would
renew the principles of open, unfettered discourse that used
to be common in earlier days.

It has occasionally been rough, and we know often people despair
at the immaturity and noise that the list generates at times. 

We're grateful for those of you who've been patient during the bad 
times and we're thankful for everyone who has joined.

We hope that all of our members have found Full Disclosure to be 
a useful resource and we look forward to many more years of service.

We would especially like to thank those of you who have unselfishly 
shared so much with so many. You represent the best tradition of hacking
as it was meant to be and hopefully always will be.

It seems more and more people have finally realized what has been happening
to the information sent to certain other lists. This is why we don't believe 
in moderation as a rule but rather as an exception of last resort and only
for anti-social behaviour.

Many people have begun to discover to their dismay that potentially vital 
information has been censored or delayed. Often this information has been 
witheld for the sake of business relationships or profit. 

We think people will agree that our founding premise has proven itself to be 
accurate many times.

We fervently believe that information is power, and that certain entities want 
to keep you powerless. 

We feel that the information distributed by researchers, systems and 
security staff is critical to everyone. Those who are afraid of information
being distributed are working from a flawed principle at best and are
possibly very bad people at worst.

Those entities wishing to legislate the practice of full disclosure into 
some kind of rigid framework or criminalize the act of sharing security 
information are very much to be feared especially in these dark days.

We believe that the timely receipt and dissemination of information has been 
(and continues to be) imperative to all of us no matter what our roles 
happen to be.

"There are no blackhats or whitehats, there are only shades of gray"

Reference: http://www.netsys.com/cgi-bin/displaynews?a=301

Len Rose and John Cartwright 

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