Publish and be damned

Aviram Jenik · Computer Fraud & Security · 2009

To publish, or not to publish? Should exploit codes be made public, or be carefully guarded in an underground vault? As ‘white knight hackers’, we at Beyond Security have a firmly held opinion, and that is – as the Duke of Wellington said – publish and be damned. We think it's in everyone's interest; well, in the interests of all the good guys in the industry – and, though it makes it sound like a Hollywood action movie, I make no apology for dividing the digital world very starkly into the good guys and the bad guys.

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