[Dailydave] FireEye is sad.

Steve steve at 44con.com
Fri Sep 11 12:27:21 EDT 2015


Guys please can we not discuss this, I'd hate people to think that freedom of speech should trump fireeye's proprietary IP, built almost entirely on codebases written by others...

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> On 11 Sep 2015, at 14:27, Dave Aitel <dave at immunityinc.com> wrote:
> 
> The real question in security is always how to play Poker against an
> opponent who can see all your cards.
> 
> http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/09/10/fireeye-slammed-over-injunction/
> https://lists.immunityinc.com/pipermail/dailydave/2013-March/000353.html
> 
> In a way our "IP" laws have confused a lot of us about security. What if
> NOBODY TALKED ABOUT OUR WEAKNESSES BECAUSE IT WAS ILLEGAL, the
> management teams say. This, of course, directly relates to the
> "regulation is GOING to happen" Wassenaar crowd because it's the exact
> same fundamental psychology at work. "We're going to regulate away the
> threat" is as useless as saying "hackers won't buy our boxes to find out
> how to bypass our defenses".
> 
> -dave
> 
> 
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