Recently I've got to listen to a marketing pitch by an ISS guy. He was going along the lines of "our X-force reverse-engineered Microsoft RPC libraries and created signatures..." and "we use protocol decoding, so we reverse-engineered various closed-source protocols in order to create out decoders".
What struck me - isn't this kind of activity actually illegal in the US? To which extent it is possible to disassemble Windows code? And if it is illegal, then aren't their customers (plus many other IDSes, with the exclusion of Snort, probably) in danger - what if Microsoft or whoever else sues ISS for doing this? :) I'm puzzled. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
