MS Excel exploit on auction

geo_2677 writes "Someone had put up for auction on eBay the details of an exploit in Microsoft Excel according to a recent article on Securityfocus. According to the article Microsoft has confirmed that this vulnerability exists, but in the meantime the original listing on eBay has been pulled. " The now pulled auction, but it does appear that Microsoft has confirmed the vulnerability in an eweek article.

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Re:Supression of information is a necessary

[ThinkFr33ly]

In fact, that right has already been upheld and Esquire (IIRC) published an article that describes how to make a nuclear weapon.

Do you have links?

In the second case, you're talking about classified material that only those with clearances who agreed not to disclose it would be privy to

Isn't that somewhat circular logic? It's OK to supress information that's classified, but only because it's classified as top secret by the government? Why is it top secret? Isn't that the reason it's classified?

I find it ironic that someone with the name "think freely" would argue in favor of suppression of information.

My name is meant to convey my skeptical outlook on life. I don't tend to think it sweeping generalisms like "all information needs to be free".