Re: Informing Companies about security vulnerabilities..

On Thursday 05 October 2006 10:59, bugtraq@cgisecurity.net wrote:
> > > Sound like you need to consider your response. I'll let the lawyers
> > > correct me, but AFAIK unless the thing you are pointing them at
> > > contravenes some laws, merely posting something with a cross site
> > > reference to a site does not constitute prohibited behaviour anywhere I
> > > know of, and there are many legitimate contexts to be doing this in (as
> > > well as the unitended ones) and intentional reasons why some sites
> > > explicitly allow this (for better or for worse).
>
> If that is what he did then yes. However if you read the email you'd know
> he did in fact test it (in his words), more below.
>
> > > Maybe you need to consult your lawyer :-).

My point exactly is that _testing_ XSS is not necesarily malicious or illegal.
Which is what you were implying. Using it to plant malicious content is
another matter, but lets not go around trying to criminalize rattling a
doorknob to see if it is locked.

cheers,
--dr

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