When I saw this morning’s story on the thriving marketplace in unpatched exploit info, two things came to mind: the famous entrepreneurial strategy of selling shovels, blue jeans and other supplies to gold prospectors in the 1840s, and the “Blacknet” scenario of crypto-libertarian engineer and essayist Timothy May .
In the justly famous words of the marketing department of Sirius Cybernetics , share and enjoy .
Peter Coffee is Director of Platform Research at salesforce.com, where he serves as a liaison with the developer community to define the opportunity and clarify developers' technical requirements on the company's evolving Apex Platform. Peter previously spent 18 years with eWEEK (formerly PC Week), the national news magazine of enterprise technology practice, where he reviewed software development tools and methods and wrote regular columns on emerging technologies and professional community issues.Before he began writing full-time in 1989, Peter spent eleven years in technical and management positions at Exxon and The Aerospace Corporation, including management of the latter company's first desktop computing planning team and applied research in applications of artificial intelligence techniques. He holds an engineering degree from MIT and an MBA from Pepperdine University, he has held teaching appointments in computer science, business analytics and information systems management at Pepperdine, UCLA, and Chapman College.
