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Re: Firefox Remote Compromise Leaked
From: Vincent van Scherpenseel <mailinglists () vanscherpenseel nl>
Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 11:02:24 +0200
On Sunday 08 May 2005 10:14, Jason Coombs wrote:
Nothing at all would have been gained by delaying disclosure, other than to give attackers a bigger window of opportunity to mount successful attacks and design new exploits that will launch successfully against a completely unprepared computing public.
Most of the time disclosure is delayed to allow the vendor to fix a security bug. If you find a security bug and give the vendor five days to fix it before you release the disclosure advisory there's a smaller chance that the vulnerability will be exploited by malicious people. Full disclosure works because it forces vendors to actually fix a security problem, and delaying a disclosure for a couple of days doesn't hurt that way of working. - Vincent van Scherpenseel -- http://vincent.vanscherpenseel.nl/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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- Firefox Remote Compromise Leaked tuytumadre (May 07)
- Re: Firefox Remote Compromise Leaked Jason Coombs (May 08)
- Re: Firefox Remote Compromise Leaked Vincent van Scherpenseel (May 08)
- Re: Firefox Remote Compromise Leaked Bipin Gautam (May 08)
- Re: Firefox Remote Compromise Leaked Eric Paynter (May 09)
- Re: Firefox Remote Compromise Leaked Mary Landesman (May 09)
- Re: Firefox Remote Compromise Leaked Eric Paynter (May 09)
- Re: Firefox Remote Compromise Leaked Mary Landesman (May 09)
- Re: Firefox Remote Compromise Leaked bkfsec (May 10)
- Re: Firefox Remote Compromise Leaked Vincent van Scherpenseel (May 08)
- Re: Firefox Remote Compromise Leaked Jason Coombs (May 08)
- Re: Firefox Remote Compromise Leaked Georgi Guninski (May 10)
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