Turns out, the reason that people like this Neil guy are able to make a living doing security auditing is because *the black hats figure it out without their help*. I'm not saying i care for the guy in particular, or like his attitude, but he is actually doing a service to the community. By exposing exploits (let's ignore the fact that it's a pretty weak one in this case, i mean in general) him and people like him light a flame under the complacent, fat posteriors of the vendors responsible for such oversights, delivering a 'patch or lose market shares' ultimatum that keeps progress in the security of modern operating systems from completely grinding to a halt. To an OS vendor, security doesn't make money, popularity makes money. But thanks to security specialists, security remains a necessary area of attention.
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Turns out, the reason that people like this Neil guy are able to make a living doing security auditing is because *the black hats figure it out without their help*. I'm not saying i care for the guy in particular, or like his attitude, but he is actually doing a service to the community. By exposing exploits (let's ignore the fact that it's a pretty weak one in this case, i mean in general) him and people like him light a flame under the complacent, fat posteriors of the vendors responsible for such oversights, delivering a 'patch or lose market shares' ultimatum that keeps progress in the security of modern operating systems from completely grinding to a halt. To an OS vendor, security doesn't make money, popularity makes money. But thanks to security specialists, security remains a necessary area of attention.