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Publish and be damned

2009; Elsevier BV; Volume: 2009; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s1361-3723(09)70045-4

1873-7056

Aviram Jenik,

Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies

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.