Neat security quote found on slashdot
Peter Gutmann
pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Sat Dec 29 19:03:29 EST 2001
>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 at 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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