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Why do bugs nowadays have to have a name and a website? Are they security researchers or posers?
by Uhrheber 8y ago
Why do bugs nowadays have to have a name and a website?
Are they security researchers or posers?
- avian 8y agoSecurity researcher A opens a bug report on a tracker and writes a technical description and it sits there for five years and it gets zero replies and nobody cares. Security researcher B hires a designer, makes a logo, catchy name and a website and it gets upvotes on HN and Reddit and media picks it up and the whole world gets a day-worth of drama from it, emergency meetings are held and things get fixed.