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Concept
Antisec Movement
Summary
The Anti Security Movement (also written as antisec and anti-sec) is a movement opposed to the computer security industry. Antisec is against full disclosure of information relating to software vulnerabilities, exploits, exploitation techniques, hacking tools, attacking public outlets and distribution points of that information. The general thought behind this is that the computer security industry uses full disclosure to profit and develop scare-tactics to convince people into buying their firewalls, anti-virus software and auditing services.
Movement followers have identified as targets of their cause:
websites such as SecurityFocus, SecuriTeam, Packet Storm, and milw0rm,
mailing lists like "full-disclosure", "vuln-dev", "vendor-sec" and Bugtraq, and
public forums and IRC channels.
In 2009, attacks against security communities such as Astalavista and milw0rm, and the popular image-host , have given the movement worldwide media attention.
The start of most public attacks in the name of the anti-security movement started around 1999. The "anti-security movement" as it is understood today was coined by the following document which was initially an index on the anti.security.is website.
The purpose of this movement is to encourage a new policy of anti-disclosure among the computer and network security communities. The goal is not to ultimately discourage the publication of all security-related news and developments, but rather, to stop the disclosure of all unknown or non-public exploits and vulnerabilities. In essence, this would put a stop to the publication of all private materials that could allow script kiddies from compromising systems via unknown methods.
The open-source movement has been an invaluable tool in the computer world, and we are all indebted to it. Open-source is a wonderful concept which should and will exist forever, as educational, scientific, and end-user software should be free and available to everybody.
Exploits, on the other hand, do not fall into this broad category.
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