PGP Key Poisoner

[Mauricio Tavares]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 8:10 AM David <david at gbenet.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/08/2019 12:25, Juergen Bruckner via Gnupg-users wrote:
> > Thats pretty interesting, but the author also says he did this as showcase.
> > Nontheless, its not really good to have such a tool "in the wild", and
> > even on a plattform like GitHub
> >
> > regards
> > Juergen
> >
> > Am 11.08.19 um 23:47 schrieb Anonymous Remailer (austria):
> >>
> >> https://github.com/skeeto/pgp-poisoner
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> To be frank - putting this code on Github whist demonstrating a point -
> was foolish - it put's the code out into the wild - and some silly smart
> arse is going to play.
>
> It also begs the question - who did the attacks on SKS keyservers? "I
> have katana and I just wanted to demonstrate cutting people's head's of
> because I can." But am not going to accept the responsibility and be
> accountable for my actions. Such a position is untenable in Law and in
> ethics.
>
> There are hundreds of thousands of people globally who are employed paid
> by their respective intelligence agencies to write malicious code. They
> hide behind the fact that they are paid - it's just a day-time 9 to 5
> job - and have no sense of responsibility or accountability working in
> contravention of their own countries laws.
>
> Now you have put the code into the public domain - to prove a point? The
> justification and points hardly support an ethical just standpoint. To
> say that this was in practice and common knowledge for years - it's new
> to me and many thousands of pgp users. Many thousands of people got
> infected - and had no thought to back up their king rings and have to
> start all over again.
>
      I take you are against CVE lists.


> Just because one can develop a nuclear bomb - it proves real stupidity
> to drop it on an unsuspecting public.
>
> Be Happy!
>
> David
>
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