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posted by Dopefish on Friday April 04 2014, @04:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the things-return-back-to-normal dept.

The Full Disclosure mailing list been relaunched after one of its original co-founders pulled the plug after an internal conflict. One of its readers, Fyodor, decided to resurrect it:

Upon hearing the bad news, I immediately wrote to John offering help. He said he was through with the list, but suggested: "you don't need me. If you want to start a replacement, go for it." After some soul searching about how much I personally miss the list (despite all its flaws), I've decided to do so! I'm already quite familiar with handling legal threats and removal demands (usually by ignoring them) since I run Seclists.org, which has long been the most popular archive for Full Disclosure and many other great security lists.

We originally covered the shutdown of Full Disclosure a month ago.

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Cheetah writes:

"Full Disclosure, the security mailing list created on 9 July 2002 by Len Rose and John Cartwright, closes its doors after threats from inside the security research community. In his final email Cartwright writes: "That 'one of our own' would undermine the efforts of the last 12 years is really the straw that broke the camel's back. I'm not willing to fight this fight any longer." and bitterly concludes: "This is all a sign of things to come, and a reflection on the sad state of an industry that should never have become an industry."

In its 12 years of operation, many notable security flaws have been exposed on the list, including all-time classics such as The history of a -probably- 13 years old Oracle bug: TNS Poison and Microsoft Windows Help Centre Handles Malformed Escape Sequences Incorrectly just to name a few.

Its presence will be missed."

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by stroucki on Friday April 04 2014, @05:30PM

    by stroucki (108) on Friday April 04 2014, @05:30PM (#26302)

    I'm glad to see that the full disclosure list is back, run by an experienced person.

  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 04 2014, @05:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 04 2014, @05:34PM (#26304)

    Hey guys I just finished up my Arduino-driven, vibrating buttplug. Is this awesome?!!

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Sir Garlon on Friday April 04 2014, @06:11PM

    by Sir Garlon (1264) on Friday April 04 2014, @06:11PM (#26320)

    I think the merit of forums like Full Disclosure is well summarized by paraphrasing an NRA bumper sticker: "If discussing security exploits is outlawed, only outlaws will know the exploits."

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  • (Score: 1) by GlennC on Friday April 04 2014, @07:29PM

    by GlennC (3656) on Friday April 04 2014, @07:29PM (#26342)

    There's nothing more to say.

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