Re:ETH_ic?

[mp@moonmac.com (Michael Pearce)]

Nb5s $bp2s writes,

>>      ...the case has killed the hacker ethic. "If I saw someone
>>      on the Internet with a security weakness, at this point
>>      I would be reluctant to act the Good Samaritan and
>>      report it," said Jeffrey Kegler, an independent software
>>      consultant in Sunnyvale Calif. "If I saw weakness in
>>      Intel's machine, I'd keep it to myself."

If I saw a weakness in Intel's machine I would happily inform the company
in the safest way possible: posting it to Cypherpunks,
alt.destroy.microsoft, comp.sys.intel and any other appropriate newsgroup,
via anonymous server. I'm sure the information would wind up in the correct
hands _eventually_.

Not that I'm suggesting anything, of course.

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