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Isn't this ironic, even hypocritical, that while they mock how chrome publicly discloses vulnerability before patch, they themselves do something even worse by
by bronzeage 9y ago
Isn't this ironic, even hypocritical, that while they mock how chrome publicly discloses vulnerability before patch, they themselves do something even worse by publishing this blog before it was fixed, with thorough explanation of everything, also saving significant amount of the research effort for those would-be-attackers they pretend to be so concerned about.
This is such a cheap PR stunt this is disgusting. They can pretend their motives are to improve security but you would be naive not to realize their real motive is just to shove their edge in your face, showing 0 regard to the security of their own customers in the process.
I wonder if their security research team funding comes from their advertising budget, because it should.
- pcwalton 9y agoMicrosoft didn't publish the blog before the bug was fixed: "Servicing security fixes is an important part of the process and, to Google’s credit, their turnaround was impressive: the bug fix was committed just four days after the initial report, and the fixed build was released three days after that."
- staticassertion 9y agoThis seems extremely unfair. As has been pointed out they did disclose this, Chrome shipped a patch a while back by disabling the optimization. Microsoft is contributing interesting, valuable information with this post.
- lawnchair_larry 9y agoIt doesn't come from their advertising budget and even the Google Project Zero team has called this great research that they want to see more of, while also saying that they expect that the MS team will get the same dumb comments that the Google team gets about how what they are doing is a stunt or is somehow "wrong". Try reading the article, it was patched long ago.