11/11/2008

belsec birthday : the top 3 stories we didn't publish

We didn't publish the story that a Belgian nuclear installation had her website and database totally open.

We didn't publish the story that a key identification infrastructure of a very important governmental installation was running on totally insecure software.

We didn't publish the story that some portal had her codebase totally open.

We knew it would make headlines, but we knew that those headlines wouldn't change a thing in the political process that we are going through. So we preferred to act responsable in these cases because a precise publication of the facts could only lead to such major problems that it would have been irresponsable to publish them. Especially when you take into account that it would in the best case take days or weeks and in the worst case months to fix it.

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