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1124 points CrankyBear | 2 comments | 11 Nov 25 18:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.446s | source
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ksynwa ◴[11 Nov 25 20:15 UTC] No.45892229[source]▶
What is the point of Google's Project Zero?

I'm not being dismissive. I understand the imperetive of identifying and fixing vulnerabilities. I also understand the detrimental impact that these problems can potentially have on Google.

What I don't understand is the choice to have a public facing project about this. Can anyone shine a light on this?

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1. rsanek ◴[11 Nov 25 20:22 UTC] No.45892326[source]▶
I would imagine it's mostly a PR/marketing thing. That way the researchers can point to being part of something other people know about, and Google gets positive PR (though maybe not in this case) for spending resources on making software in general more secure.
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2. dkdcio ◴[11 Nov 25 20:38 UTC] No.45892507[source]▶
you could not imagine and just read sources like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Zero