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FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs

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1124 points CrankyBear | 1 comments | 11 Nov 25 18:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | 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. khuey ◴[11 Nov 25 20:38 UTC] No.45892506[source]▶
Project Zero's public existence came out of the post-Snowden period where Google was publicly pissed at the NSA/etc for spying on them (e.g. by tapping their fiber links).