<p dir="ltr">I like the idea in principle.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I didn't attend the 2011 Ruxcon but I was told the AFP's Alex Tilley suggested to the room, that in situations such as the FSS incident, the discoverer contact and disclose the bug to them and they will notify the vendor.</p>
<p dir="ltr">While nice in theory, I have a few issues with this. I won't go into their lack of resources or why they shouldn't be told about 3rd party remote exploits etc, but I will say this one thing:</p>
<p dir="ltr">Police are a paramilitary force with the primary function of arresting, charging and bringing people before the Court.</p>
<p dir="ltr">So with that in mind, my advice is to only speak to police when you want somebody arrested and charged.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I certainly wouldn't touch them with a 6 foot pole about an SQL injection in a VIC transport website (unless it was their own <a href="http://afp.gov.au">afp.gov.au</a> site which is a different story).<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 9 Jan 2014 10:41, "Jake Anderson" <<a href="mailto:yahoo@vapourforge.com">yahoo@vapourforge.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Given that one of the jobs of the
police is prevent crime could AFP perhaps set up a vuln reporting
doohickey?<br>
crimestoppers for the interweb?<br>
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heh I wonder how that would go, reporting a vuln to crimestoppers,
much as you would report an open door to a closed bank to the
police why should you not do the same thing when online?<br>
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It might be less work for them than trying to prosecute 15 year
olds who have access to hacking tools like google.<br>
That and getting a call/letter from the AFP or visit from a
uniformed officer reporting a vuln may well light a fire under the
party in terms of getting something done about it.<br>
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On 09/01/14 06:01, thelionroars wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">It is time law enforcement caught up with the
Australian community acceptable standards.<br>
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<div>Agreed. Actually, maybe the Federal Government should
be looking at legislating to ensure protection of people
who try to inform organisations of these vulnerabilities.
They should consider legislating mandatory disclosure of
information security breaches while they are it.<br>
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