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Is 'Ethical Malware' an Oxymoron or a Best Practice? |
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Source: LinuxInsider - Posted by Alex
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Do circumstances EVER warrant the use of malware? That question was bandied about the FOSS blogosphere this week, after a well-meaning developer wondered whether it would be ethical to expose vulnerabilities that others might then exploit. It's all in how it's handled, suggested Chris Travers, who works on the LedgerSMB project. "We fix first, then we explain how the vulnerability works."
Every community has its heroes, and here in the world of Linux there's no doubt that Linus Torvalds is one of them.
Linus featured more prominently than usual in the Linux blogosphere over the past week, in fact, and not just because he released version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel.
No indeed! Exciting though a new release may be, an even bigger discussion on the Linux blogs last week was of a very different nature. An Obama-ish nature, you might say, or an Al Gore-ish one.
Yes, there was serious discussion of the possibility of a Nobel Peace Prize for our favorite Finn!
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