just incase you missed it

[Kevin Brown]

I would agree that the source code can work to the defenders advantage as well
as an attacker.  If you have a firewall with something like Snort
(www.snort.org) with spade or guardian to block attacking ip's and you look at
the source of the exploit, the defender could write a new rule to defend against
the attack.  But I also agree that the general discussion forum is not a place
to post things of this nature.  There is a security list for plug as well as
other lists such as security focus, or snort, or whitehats....

> > Just so you don't think George is alone - I am in total agreement with
> > George. There was absolutely nothing that you said here that promotes linux -
> > only a public display for your hard on for Microsoft.
> >
> > Last I heard, there are plenty of exploits to go around for all OS's so I see
> > little reason to celebrate a particular flavor. It's childish and bad for the
> > industry.
> >
> > A cheap laugh at the expense of others is certain to be considered by some to
> > be in poor taste.
> 
> Honestly, I like to get exploits like this so I can use them on my own
> systems, showing my boss that there are significant sercurity problems
> that can't wait for "the next service pack".   Security exploits are more
> useful to defenders as they are to attackers.
> 
> Wether or not this is a proper forum for such data, is a completely
> seperate issue.