SANS - strike 2

i posted previously about SANS hosting and distributing malware and what i thought of it... well here's strike 2 against them...

apparently now they're asking the general public to send them samples of some worm...

now, under my ideals of responsible handling of self-replicating materials i'm willing to accept that some people might actually feel like there's a good reason to trust them - after all, it's SANS...

but think about it for a minute... they have to resort to asking the general public for a sample? that tells me that either no one in the anti-virus research community or industry trusts them enough to give them a sample, or the people at SANS involved in this aren't even bothering to develop the contacts needed to get these types of materials through the right channels...

either way, it isn't good...