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07-28-2005, 12:29 PM
I was at Blackhat three years ago when security researcher Dmitry Skylarov presented his newly-discovered weakness in PDF encryption. After Adobe complained, he was arrested, but the public outcry caused Adobe to back down very quickly.

It's hard to believe big companies still have not learned their lesson. Read the latest news here:
http://securityfocus.com/news/11259
...it's as dramatic as I've even seen in the geek world :)

Like it or hate it, independent "full disclosure" of security exploits seems the only way to keep vendors open and honest. In fact, just this week it came out that Oracle has been sitting on a vulnerability for two years:
http://securityfocus.com/news/11252