Interesting,
How is it that I start a thread on penetration testing tools... and it
evolves to Trademark....
-Adriel
-----Original Message-----
From: Yvan Boily <yboily@gmail.com>
To: greybrimstone@aim.com <greybrimstone@aim.com>
Cc: ge@linuxbox.org; hdm@digitaloffense.net;
full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk
Sent: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:12:09 -0600
Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Vulnerability/Penetration Testing Tools
The adwords/trademark issue on Google has seen its day in court.
Kind of interesting:
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=google+geico+lawsuit&meta=
On 1/17/06, greybrimstone@aim.com <greybrimstone@aim.com> wrote:
> I think its up for debate. Business and ethics aren't one in the
same.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
> To: H D Moore <hdm@digitaloffense.net>
> Cc: full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk
> <full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk>
> Sent: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 02:20:31 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Vulnerability/Penetration Testing
Tools
>
> H D Moore wrote:
> > You should check out the Metasploit Framework:
> > - http://metasploit.com/projects/Framework/
> > > <rant>
> > When I viewed the online demo of SAINT Exploit in December of 2005,
> nearly > all of their exploit modules had names very similar to the
> ones found in > version 2.5 of the Metasploit Framework. The demo has
> been updated since > then and a handful of new exploits have been
mixed
> in while others had > their name changed. Oh, and their placement of
a
> Google Adword on > "metasploit" was a nice touch...
> > </rant>
>
> Speaking of Google..
> I had the unfortunate fortune of working on an ad campaign recently.
> It brought to the fore many questions.. some of them were about this.
>
> If I put an adword on "symantec", don't I breach their trademark, or
> Google does?
>
> I doubt anyone would sue Google to find out, or be in courts for so
> long it won't matter any longer.
>
> Annoying, but works both ways.
>
> Gadi.
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