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Neat security quote found on slashdot
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Sat Dec 29 21:05:12 2001
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 13:03:29 +1300 (NZDT)
Message-ID: <200112300003.NAA396511@ruru.cs.auckland.ac.nz>
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
>From the "Gift Card Hacking" thread,
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=25442&cid=0&pid=0&startat=&threshold=1&mode=flat&commentsort=0&op=Change
Re:Nondisclosure (Score:1)
by FauxPasIII (fauxpas@cc.gatech.dont.spam.me.edu) on Saturday December 29, @12:27PM (#2762484)
Businesses are not going to expend money fixing any problem, no matter how
severly it affects me as a customer, until it starts to affect their
profitability. I wouldn't expect them to; they are a construct created with
the express purpose of optimizing profitability. My goal as a security-
conscious consumer is to -make- it the corporation's best interest to fix any
problems that would have a detrimental effect on me as quickly as possible.
(Please, not another full-disclosure flamewar, I just wanted to post this
because it seems to summarise the situation nicely).
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