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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. arccy ◴[] No.45898765[source]
But if open source is reliant on public contributors to fix things, then the bug should be open so anyone can take a stab at fixing it, rather than relying on the closed group of maintainers