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The first three Twitter messages by the vulnerability reporter are: “@AmericanExpress Who can I contact regarding security vulnerabilities in your system? I'm
by demetris 15y ago
The first three Twitter messages by the vulnerability reporter are:
“@AmericanExpress Who can I contact regarding security vulnerabilities in your system? I'm not available through phone, physical mail or fax”
“@AmericanExpress Just to clarify: I have vulnerabilities. This should be "urgent", so no technical support jungle please :-)”
“@AmericanExpress I've been trying to get in touch with AMEX regarding security vulnerabilities in your system for a while. Who do I speak to?”
I think this is not ideally expressive language when you talk to a lay-person representative on Twitter. I believe a better result could be achieved with simpler and clearer language:
“@AmericanExpress I have discovered a serious security issue in your web system (money can be stolen). Please help me report it to someone responsible.”
- danvideo 15y agoyep, credit that the guy partially tried - but prefacing your first interaction about a serious issue by "I'm not available [to contact through most of the usual communication methods]" is sort of self-defeating.
- nknight 15y agoHe's reporting a vulnerability on a website. It is absolutely reasonable to expect to be able to report it through email, and utterly ridiculous of AMEX to refuse. That's where the conversation ends, not with "well, you should spend your time fighting through these costly and obsolete mechanisms so you can do us a favor".
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