Schneier Discusses Ethics of Crypto PR Tactics

vaxzilla writes "There's a really great article in Bruce Scheiner's January 15th CRYPTO-GRAM newsletter. He questions the ethics of various security companies who use announcements of security problems to bolster the sales of their products and services. When I read about the recent articles talking about the weakness of the current web browers, I pretty much thought, "Yeah, so what?" But nCipher looks to be pushing the hype to help push their product. The article is worth reading. "