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I heard through the grapevine that YC affiliated companies were tipped off to this exploit/patch before it was made public (really; a YC affiliate asked me toda

by derwiki 14y ago

I heard through the grapevine that YC affiliated companies were tipped off to this exploit/patch before it was made public (really; a YC affiliate asked me today about the vuln before it was disclosed). Could anyone comment on that?

jgeralnik 14y ago
Not necessarily anything to do with YC; the vulnerability was discovered and posted on twitter shortly after last week's vulnerability.
tptacek 14y ago
The existence of this vulnerability (without details) was disclosed publicly last week. So far as I know, nobody was told any details about the vulnerability itself; just that a patch was coming, and it was very important to apply it.