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Anti-secs want to keep security - in particular, exploits - private. Milw0rm is their nemesis. There's a discernible political bent to their writings and rantin
by dtf 17y ago
Anti-secs want to keep security - in particular, exploits - private. Milw0rm is their nemesis. There's a discernible political bent to their writings and rantings. While we see a general shift on the internet towards the idea that "information just wants to be free", the anti-sec people don't agree with this when it comes to matters of security. From a white-hat POV, they're saying that full disclosure actually causes more damage than if only a select few, capable, and not necessarily malevolent, people were to know about any particular exploit. But I also get the impression there's a tad of immaturity and insecurity in there. There's revulsion that a once (deservedly) elite occupation has been encroached by larger, more clueless corporations (eg the antivirus mongers, but there are many others), and that the movement is more a rebellion against that than a completely well thought out, idealistic point of view. Still, from recent events, nobody could deny their abilities.