Posted in Firm offers to patent security fixes
Posted Wednesday 6th June 2007 18:01 GMT
Improving Security?
Anybody think that this novel approach has anything to do with value added services to improve the life of the weary Security Officer, or is it just a nasty scheme to enrich the greedy?
If this ever comes off, can you imagine not being able to patch a security hole because of a protracted legal dispute between "Intelligent Weapons" and the software vendor of choice, all the time knowing that ever greater levels of disclosure in the legal circles will give full advantage to the hacking community to develop exploits.
Imagine being served a wit because you developed a workaround to protect your systems... This is bad for everybody, except for the lawyers.