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How does this initiative compare to other foundations that have similar responsibilities (judging from the website and pinned github repos), like say, OWASP [1]
by cookiengineer 6y ago
How does this initiative compare to other foundations that have similar responsibilities (judging from the website and pinned github repos), like say, OWASP [1] or the CSA [2]?
Will this foundation focus on reducing patch times and offering services like integrated bugtrackers and direct contacts and open policies about what happens to submitted critical bugs and exploit PoCs?
I'm asking because when thinking of "enterprise open-source", the WebKit bugtracker comes to mind ... where literally nobody knows what's going on. All bugs are private once submitted and not any external contributor can see what's going on until literally years later somebody starts to actually read it; and yes that's also the case for critical remote exploit bug reports.
Personal Opinion:
I personally cannot vouch for Microsoft's policies, as they cease-and-desisted me and threatened to sue me in the past for disclosing a RCE/priv escalation report that was NT related. They also caused an illegal police raid (in a legal case where they didn't even charged me with anything and therefore my lawyer couldn't find out anything except about the illegal police raid reports). Well, and I still haven't gotten back my hardware after waiting more than 5 years.
So yeah, I guess every company that's part of this initiative should look on their own shitty policies and previous legal actions before claiming they actually want to get contributions. Almost always reverse engineers get threatened by lawyers once they report critical remote exploit-level bugs. Quite literally, I'm not making this up, and it's known around the netsec/infosec scenes.
As long as "hackers" are painted as the bad guys for reverse engineering and trying to submit patches and fixes, and even have to be anxious about not getting sued by the company they're trying to help - nothing will change.
[1] https://owasp.org/ https://owasp.org/
[2] https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/ https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/
- M2Ys4U 6y agoIt looks like OWASP is an "Associate Member" of this Foundation