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Sometimes the only way to prevent hacks is to work with the hackers..otherwise, if you take an unyeilding, draconian approach, it means exploits will remain hidden for as long as possible, and there is no incentive whatsoever for the hackers to come clean.
No, this does not make the hackers into heroes by any means, but it does inject some reality into the situation. Its the same thing law enforcement does, they find low-level offenders, get them to assist in catching the bigger criminals in return for immunity. Nothing new or difficult to grasp there.
I say its a pretty proactive step, and will yeild a lot more fruit than having a zero-flexibility, zero-tolerance, zero-thinking policy.
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10-19-2009, 07:20 PM
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