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By Jo Best
Posted on ZDNet News: Jul 16, 2004 3:24:00 PM

The online shop where hackers were offering Enterasys and Napster source code for sale has closed its doors.

The site, which called itself the Source Code Club, opened on Monday but shut up virtual shop late on Wednesday because of its customers' fears. It also said it would reopen in the "near future" when it had found the right business model.

A statement on the site read: "We regret to inform that SCC has temporarily suspended operations. Our business model is currently being re-designed to alleviate some of the initial fears our customers faced."

The Ukrainian-registered site had been claiming to sell source code for Enterasys Dragon intrusion detection system 6.1 for $16,000 and Napster's server and client code for $10,000.

The FBI is investigating.

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Only to open up for business on Usenet.
Whatever. (Read the rest)
Posted by: boomslang_z Posted on: 07/19/04 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
I hope it gets shut down permanently  CobraA1 | 07/16/04
how much risk do we really assume  BXLE | 07/16/04
What "business model"?  d_jedi | 07/16/04
lol  userxp | 07/16/04
You forgot copyright law  CobraA1 | 07/16/04
lol  userxp | 07/16/04
You forgot copyright law  AmusedAtItAll | 07/17/04
OTOH  JimSatterfieldW | 07/19/04
Total disrespect  pj-xmesh | 07/17/04
Wow, open source at its extreme  FilledOut | 07/18/04
Only to open up for business on Usenet.  boomslang_z | 07/19/04

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