Every season yields a bumper crop of computer security stories: break-ins, new vulnerabilities, new products. But this season has also given us a crop of stories about computer security philosophy. There has been a resurgence in opposition to the full disclosure . . .
Every season yields a bumper crop of computer security stories: break-ins, new vulnerabilities, new products. But this season has also given us a crop of stories about computer security philosophy. There has been a resurgence in opposition to the full disclosure movement: the theory that states that publishing vulnerabilities is the best way to fix them. In response, defenders of the movement have published their rebuttals. And even more experts have weighed in with opinions on the DeCSS case, where a New York judge ruled that distributing an attack tool is illegal.

The link for this article located at Bruce Schneier is no longer available.