alt Hacker NewsWho knows how many attackers had found this vulnerability and had already been using it prior to this research finding it?
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Quarrelsome • yesterday at 6:47 PM
well now everyone does, so the irresponsible disclosure makes it significantly worse.
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Argument from uncertainty is not a good way to reason about this.
I could equally ask: "Who knows how many attackers learned about this vulnerability from this disclosure, and used it before the distributions fixed it?"