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> You'd think...these multi-billion dollar companies...would recognize the danger and immediately divert the best engineers they had to help this team identify
by dehrmann 5y ago
> You'd think...these multi-billion dollar companies...would recognize the danger and immediately divert the best engineers they had to help this team identify and mitigate the problems.
For the general case, the problem is that a reporter might report the vulnerability to the open source project, then the project needs to keep it a secret while they make a fix. There isn't a great way to leverage these stakeholders. It's obviously different for something like Android that is open source, but clearly Google.