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JamesBarney ◴[] No.45891454[source]
I get the idea of publicly disclosing security issues to large well funded companies that need to be incentivized to fix them. But I think open source has a good argument that in terms of risk reward tradeoff, publicly disclosing these for small resource constrained open source project probably creates a lot more risk than reward.
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1. Ygg2 ◴[] No.45891615[source]
> publicly disclosing these for small resource constrained open source project probably creates a lot more risk than reward.

Not publicly disclosing it also carries risk. Library users get wrong impression that library has no vulnerabilities, while numerous bugs are reported but don't appear due to FOSS policy.