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We need to stop using analogies with hardware. Software is fundamentally different and they don't apply in a lot of cases. And in my opinion this is one of them
by Klathmon 8y ago
We need to stop using analogies with hardware. Software is fundamentally different and they don't apply in a lot of cases. And in my opinion this is one of them.
While I agree that not all bugs are the same level of severity, if there is no evidence of abuse of a bug, and it has been fixed, I see no reason to have them disclose it in any way. It would be akin to forcing companies to disclose when they repremand an employee, or when they change an internal HR process to avoid interpersonal problems.
- TangoTrotFox 8y agoGoogle is not saying there is no evidence that user information was accessed by third parties. They are claiming that they have no idea and supposedly were not logging access to privileged information. This seems highly questionable. And if this passes for acceptable, it creates a significant incentive for all companies to do away with logging as suddenly they can just claim ignorance on everything.
- asdfasgasdgasdg 8y agoActually that's exactly what Google has said. Note that this is different from saying there's positive evidence that no user data was accessed. Oh, and are we going to be mad at Google for purging logs now? I thought our hobby horse was Google retaining unneeded logs, but I guess it's even more fun to be mad at them for both so we can be mad no matter what they do.
- TangoTrotFox 8y agoGoogle is relentless in collecting data on everybody and everything. Until suddenly collecting data could possibly incriminate them in an action, at which point they suddenly claim to lack any data whatsoever. Occam's razor would indicate that Google is being less than truthful.