Will companies start using legal threats to silence [software] vulnerability whistleblowers? That may be what happened to Next Generation Security Software (NGS Software) after it found numerous security holes in a Sybase database product in late 2004...[editor's note: Who's next? Consumer Reports magazine? - BKS]

http://mcpmag.com/columns/article.asp?EditorialsID=957

from Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online, by Russ Cooper


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp