Stockpiling zero-day vulnerabilities

Posted Aug 16, 2012 14:53 UTC (Thu) by nickbp (guest, #63605)
In reply to: Stockpiling zero-day vulnerabilities by drag
Parent article: Stockpiling zero-day vulnerabilities

I sometimes wonder if you have a spider set up to search LWN articles for any mention of "government".

Stockpiling zero-day vulnerabilities

Posted Aug 16, 2012 15:04 UTC (Thu) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (3 responses)

I comment in a lot of articles about different things.

Sometimes I just like to point things out that should be blindingly obvious to everybody

Stockpiling zero-day vulnerabilities

Posted Aug 16, 2012 21:27 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (2 responses)

Clearly the utter evil of all government is *not* 'blindingly obvious to everybody', or the Libertarian Party in the US would not be stuck at around a 3% vote share nor regarded as beyond-the-pale ultra-rightists by 99.9% of the population of Europe (that knows that they exist).

It is pointless wasting your time and ours by trying to convert us to your political religion. Please stop trying.

Stockpiling zero-day vulnerabilities

Posted Aug 16, 2012 22:54 UTC (Thu) by apoelstra (subscriber, #75205) [Link] (1 responses)

> It is pointless wasting your time and ours by trying to convert us to your political religion. Please stop trying.

I don't mean to fan a flame-war, but I enjoy drag's posts, and he does manage to do them politely. A topic such as zero-day markets is naturally politically charged, so given that, it's nice to see some differing opinions.

Stockpiling zero-day vulnerabilities

Posted Aug 17, 2012 13:26 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

It's *because* most of drag's posts are interesting that I'm trying to convince him not to drag his political dragon into the living room rather than just filtering him out: I'd lose too many good comments if I did that.

Dragons are bad companions in living rooms. They spread flames (and eat people).