[Dshield] The Legend of LaBrea vs the Empire

[melvin smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

From: "Doug White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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Subject:  Re: [Dshield] Odd things occuring on TCP 135.

Date:  Tue, 30 Sept 2003 11:16:16 -0400

Have you tried submitting the program to one of the anti-virus vendors?

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Pleaes forgive me if this is old news but

some may not know.

It may be relevant to take a look at the experience of

the developer of LaBrea in regards to submitting

anything to waterwall (firewall) vendors. 

Full text at:

http://www.hackbusters.net/

<edited version by Mel>

Once upon a time, in a Kingdom in the Midwest, there 
lived a young man who wrote software. One day, while 
writing a program that he hoped would make his life 
easier, he happened to find out something very, very 
bad about an operating system developed by a Large 
Corporation located in another Kingdom on the West 
Coast. This operating system (let's call it Doors YQ) 
was designed very differently from its predecessors 
(Doors 95 and Doors 98). In fact, it was designed so 
differently that it broke nearly every single 
instance of some very special protective programs 
(let's call them waterwalls) in a very specific way. 
Waterwall software was supposed to protect the 
computers from people who wanted to hurt them from 
the outside and from malicious programs that 
wanted to send out information from the inside.



The young man was a good-hearted soul. He tried 
as best he could to tell all the waterwall 
vendors about the problem. He didn't tell 
anyone else about the problem so that bad people 
couldn't take advantage of it before the 
waterwall vendors had a chance to fix things. 
Most of the waterwall vendors were good-hearted 
people too, but some didn't listen.

Then, one day, the young man discovered that the 
Kingdom in the Midwest frowned upon what he was 
doing. In fact, the Kingdom had passed a law, on 
January 1st of that very year, that said that 
what he was doing was bad and that if he were 
caught doing it, he would be thrown into the 
Royal dungeons for between two and five years 
and would be called a felon for all of his life. 
He could also be forced to turn over all of his 
worldly goods in what was known as a civil 
judgement (even though there was very little 
about it that could be considered civil.)

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