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dweinusyesterday at 11:24 PM1 replyview on HN

No, I will. The distros and the kernel devs should be talking and moving on high sev patches, sure. But real people will have gotten hurt because the reporter didn't want to wait for that to happen. That's on them.


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john_strinlaitoday at 12:24 AM

you must be unfamiliar what used to happen before hard deadlines were set on disclosure. it was much worse for the users.

here is a good start: https://projectzero.google/vulnerability-disclosure-faq.html...

there is ~3 decades of more context if you search for it.