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Kevin Mitnick Is Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

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app103:
Others might wish to see it as him setting his own bounty price, to find exploits in software, selling them to the big developers responsible for that software so that they can fix the vulnerabilities.

But I don't see it that way.

My thought was him selling exploits to the DHS, NSA, and CIA, even if he ends up unknowingly doing it, by selling them to one of their umbrella corporations. And what do you think they would do with those exploits?

Seems less like revenge and more like greed, if you ask me.

Deozaan:
Is that even legal? Seems like a good way to land himself back in prison.

app103:
Is that even legal? Seems like a good way to land himself back in prison.
-Deozaan (September 26, 2014, 07:01 PM)
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Selling exploits to the DHS, NSA, and CIA is perfectly legal. Selling exploits for products direct to the company that's responsible for them, such as selling exploits for Google products to Google, is perfectly legal, too. Anything else is a gray area, and it would all depend on who he sold it to and what they did with it. Sell the wrong thing to the wrong person, and he could be held responsible for what they do and charged as an accessory, if they do anything illegal with it.

Innuendo:
app103 is following my line of thought here. Hacking is considered to be an act of terrorism under modern American law. It's just a matter of time before one of his clients does something illegal with what he sold them and he'll be looking down the barrel of being charged as a terrorist.

It's amazing how some of the smartest people can also be among the stupidest.

TaoPhoenix:
It's amazing how some of the smartest people can also be among the stupidest.
-Innuendo (September 27, 2014, 10:39 AM)
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Well, that phrasing bothers me a little. I prefer it as "IQ and wisdom are far from the same thing. "
So you get both halves of the spectrum - IQ off the charts but zero wisdom, and maybe Forrest Gump on the other. (After all, he somehow managed to meet Presidents, start a business, become a leader (when he had people following him while he ran), and more, and didn't really seem to have very many vicious enemies.

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