Re: Window of opportunity

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

/me tries to remember who has the most secure operating system in the 
world.

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote:

> The Black Hat security conference had a last-minute cancellation of a 
> presentation by a group of researchers scheduled to reveal a dangerous software 
> vulnerability. Organizers promoted a talk that would be on the scale of the flaw in 
> the DNS (Domain Name System) highlighted by a security researcher at Black 
> Hat’s U.S. conference in July 2008.  
>
> The flaw is so sensitive that even revealing the vendor affected could potentially 
> cause hackers to start poking around with applications or operating systems to try 
> to figure it out, said Black Hat’s CEO. The unnamed vendor has told the 
> researchers that it could have a patch ready in a month or so, but it could take as 
> long as four months.  
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/163253/black_hat_supertalk_halted
> _due_to_vendor_concerns.html   
>
> OK, we have a really, really, serious bug, and it's going to take up to four months 
> to get a patch out.  Any bets on the vendor?  :-)
>
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