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"The problem with SecurityFocus is not that they moderate the lists, but the fact that they deliberately delay and partially censor the information," said Thomas Kristensen, CTO of Secunia, based in Copenhagen, Denmark. "Since they were acquired by Symantec they changed their policy regarding BugTraq. Before they used to post everything to everybody at the same time. Now they protect the interests of Symantec, delay information and inform their customers in advance."


If the US scientist learned a giant asteroid was coming for earth, but chose to sell the information to CNN versus MSNBC cause they paid more, and as a result slowed the public
response to the threat and lessened people's chance of survivial, this would indeed, suck ass.

Sure, virus warnings and cosmic collisions are different, but, they both deal with critical information. Critical information affecting everyones' lives and livelyhoods should be shared freely without any string attatched.