Re:Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through securit...
by ShabbosGoy on Friday August 04, 2017 @07:55PM
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Do you think there should be a market for building/selling malware? I feel like it would aid in zero day disclosures. But it could also incentivize black hats.
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Re:Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through securit...
by tptacek on Friday August 04, 2017 @08:30PM
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Fuck no. Malware and exploits are not the same thing. Anyone can write malware; you just have to have the stones and a broken enough moral compass to make money by immiserating strangers. There is an infinite amount of malware; we don't benefit from its "disclosure".