Re: [Full-Disclosure] Vendor non-acknowledgement

[Giovanni Bobbio <giovanni@communicationvalley.it>]

On Tuesday 30 September 2003 18:07, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 09:37:53AM -0500, Kent A wrote:
> > Novell recently put out security release
> > (http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/10087316.htm)
> > based upon my notifications to them.  Do most vendors acknowledge
> > security professionals that bring vulnerabilities to them?
>
> I can understand that a company such as Novell doesn't want to credit
> "Kent A <bowulf@myrealbox.com>" with the discovery of a software
> vulnerability.

I don't understand it, could you explain your rationale?
And we don't really know whether he identified himself as Kent A or Mickey 
Mouse or...

Giovanni

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