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Security fixes to be patented?!

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In the latest evolution of vulnerability discovery, a company called Intellectual Weapons is offering to work with researchers to develop fixes for security vulnerabilities and then patent those fixes.

Probably FUD, but still: if we needed any more evidence that software patents were a bad idea...

What the devil?

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