Oz hackers safe to drop 0day at hacker cons, Wassenaar wonk says

Australian hackers are free under the Wassenaar Arrangement to bring zero day vulnerabilities overseas, demonstrate them on stage, in training sessions, and to exploit them to win cash as part of hacking competitions, according to the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTG*). DSTO's Leonard Wills. Image: Darren …

[Anonymous Coward]

Public software and public domain

There is a certain unsubtle difference between software being publicly available and it being in public domain. I wonder which one he means, or perhaps whether he is even aware of the distinction - being a weapons expert and alll ...

[Lapun Mankimasta]

OT praps?

You know, the difference between a wonk and a wanker is "o" "a" "er" ....

Guarantees for each individual event sounds a lot like "classical" gangster politics to me. Thought we had something like the "rule of law". Apparently that's one of those comic superstitions us yokels have.

[Anonymous Coward]

So following the logic, OSS will become safer to use than proprietary software over time

[-tim]

And this is new how?

There are exploits exposed at Breakpoint and Ruxcon years ago that still aren't fixed.

What is the problem with a few more next time?