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Subject: Re: Firewalls-Digest V5 #250
From: Bruce Marshall <brucem @ wichita . fn . net>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 16:16:42 -0500 (CDT)
To: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <960422150853 . ZM2871 @ jolt . systems . sa . gov . au>

On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, Garth Kidd wrote:

> There's also the matter of liability -- nobody wants to be sued for 
> revealing to the intruder community a security hole later exploited to 
> <insert something nasty here>.  

    I think that such a lawsuit would be really grasping at straws.  
Anyway, if such lawsuits were plausible how come they haven't happened 
yet?  I think we can pretty much discount that as being an organization's 
or individual's reason for withholding such information.

Bruce Marshall


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