According to the introduction on its site, Bugtraq “is a full disclosure moderated mailing list for the *detailed* discussion and announcement of computer security vulnerabilities…” Microsoft, with its typical myopic arrogance, fired of an e-mail warning after one of Microsoft’s announcements of yet another bug in their softare was reposted to the Bugtraq list.
According to the list moderator,
It seems Microsoft was not very amused at my posting of their advisory to the list the other day. As the copyright holders of the work they have told me in no uncertain terms that I do not have their permission to redistribute a text version of their web page bulletins via the mailing list or the securityfocus.com web site, and that doing so would be considered an act of copyright violation.
There you have it. So until Microsoft changes their policy or changes their email bulletins back to the old format you won’t see them on the list. Of curse [sic] the vulnerabilities and their information will continue to be announced.
Just when I think Microsoft couldn’t possibly get more petty or arrogant, they go and prove me wrong. It is inconceivable to me why such a large corporation would treat its customers in such a shabby manner.