[Full-disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA 1650-1] New openldap2.3 packags fix denial of service

2008-10-12 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
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[Full-disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA 1651-1] New ruby1.8 packages fix several vulnerabilities

2008-10-12 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
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[Full-disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA 1652-1] New ruby1.9 packages fix several vulnerabilities

2008-10-12 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
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Re: [Full-disclosure] security industry software license

2008-10-12 Thread Pavel Kankovsky
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, n3td3v wrote: > there should be a central license that people apply for to use > software like metasploit. Oh, do not forget a central license to use a debugger and a central license to read a book. [1] Not to mention a central license to think. [1] http://www.gnu.org/philo

Re: [Full-disclosure] licensing discussion

2008-10-12 Thread Mary and Glenn Everhart
Gents - Consider an old quote from LBJ, approximately "the design of a law when well administered is rarely the problem. Designing measures that work when badly administered is what is difficult." A licensing system might conceivably be administered to enhance security for the world's software

Re: [Full-disclosure] security industry software license

2008-10-12 Thread n3td3v
It would be a good way for the government to leverage control of hackers and the people who use their tools though. Disclosure Scotland is already in operation, all you need is a new law to say everyone who uses security software must get a Disclosure Scotland background check first. I think the g

Re: [Full-disclosure] security industry software license

2008-10-12 Thread vulcanius
The economics alone of such a set of laws is enough to realize how unrealistic it is. Not to mention the privacy concerns, international laws, enforcement, etc. In the perfect world of your imagination this might just work but in the real world it's an absolutely ridiculous idea. Do you honestly be

Re: [Full-disclosure] security industry software license

2008-10-12 Thread Freeman Y.
This always has been, and still is, a stupid idea. n3td3v wrote: > It would be a good way for the government to leverage control of > hackers and the people who use their tools though. Disclosure Scotland > is already in operation, all you need is a new law to say everyone who > uses security soft

Re: [Full-disclosure] security industry software license

2008-10-12 Thread n3td3v
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:58 AM, vulcanius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you honestly believe such a thing could ever happen or are you just > speculating for no reason? I believe the government might be considering such a scheme, although im just throwing the idea out there for people to comme

[Full-disclosure] Fwd: UK government monitoring

2008-10-12 Thread n3td3v
On 10 Oct, 11:56, "Robin Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks like the UK government is going to start monitoring us a lot > closer in the > future:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/07/detica_interception_modernisation/ they are already doing it, you just don't know about it yet, oh you do

Re: [Full-disclosure] Fwd: UK government monitoring

2008-10-12 Thread James Matthews
I think the irony of the situation is that they have their CCTV cameras for years now and they didn't bring crime down. How will this database help? On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 8:35 PM, n3td3v <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10 Oct, 11:56, "Robin Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looks like the UK

Re: [Full-disclosure] Fwd: UK government monitoring

2008-10-12 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:17:38 PDT, James Matthews said: > I think the irony of the situation is that they have their CCTV cameras for > years now and they didn't bring crime down. How will this database help? Oh, it *will* help. Just not help with bringing crime down. pgpI5vJcRltnC.pgp Descripti