“Well-meaning hackers are creating an army of “script
kiddies” by making security holes public, says a speaker at the
Black Hat Security Conference.“
“Long controversial, the policy of disclosing software
vulnerabilities to the public was subject to open attack in a
Wednesday keynote at the Black Hat Security Conference.”
“Marcus Ranum, chief technology officer for intrusion detection
software maker Network Flight Recorder Inc., used hard language to
say that security can’t be improved unless “gray hat” hackers stop
disclosing security holes to the public and stop creating tools for
so-called “script kiddies” to exploit the holes.”
“Full disclosure is creating armies and armies of script
kiddies,” said Ranum, who called the creators of hacking tools
“weapons dealers” who aren’t really concerned with security.”