Re: Microsoft Windows Help Centre Handles Malformed Escape Sequences Incorrectly

[Tavis Ormandy <taviso () cmpxchg8b com>]

Susan, this is what is called "full disclosure", and my response was
relevant.

I will not answer anymore uninformed questions on this topic.

Thanks, Tavis.

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 09:02:37AM -0700, Susan Bradley wrote:
> I'm not asking about disclosure.  I'm asking what happened to the level 
> of communication between you and MSRC that after 4 days you posted this?
>
> Tavis Ormandy wrote:
> > Susan, I wish I had the time to hold your hand through getting up to
> > speed on the disclosure debate. Instead, I would suggest starting with
> > the links in my advisory which were intended to give you enough
> > background to understand the issues involved (skip to the Notes section,
> > if you like).
> >
> > As I cannot hope to speak as eloquently on the topic as Bruce, I will
> > not attempt to repeat them for you here.
> >
> > If after researching the topic you still have questions, please let me
> > know.
> >
> > Thanks, Tavis.
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 08:36:09AM -0700, Susan Bradley wrote:
> >  
> > > I'm not an enterprise customer, but I am a mouthy female. So here's my 
> > > question back to you, for my education, how exactly did MSRC contact you 
> > > back? 
> > >
> > > Since June 5th have you tried emailing back or any of your contacts from 
> > > past interactions and asked what was up?  I'm disappointed in this lack 
> > > of communication I see on both sides.  You are ...well... Tavis 
> > > Ormandy... I seriously doubt MSRC is blowing you off here.
> > >
> > > Keep in mind we just had a LARGE patch week to deal with.  I don't know 
> > > what was going on on their side, nor making excuses as I don't know what 
> > > communication you've had in the past and had on this issue ... I'm just 
> > > saying I would have spent a little more time getting mad at them and 
> > > sent a lot more emails back to them before posting this.
> > >
> > > (And try dealing with Microsoft licensing sometime if you think security 
> > > communication is lacking)
> > >
> > >    
> >
> >  

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