Re:Google reveals fistful of flaws in Apple's iMessage app
by bzbarsky on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @12:24PM
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That's a good point about advisories. All the findings are public eventually in the form of non-hidden bug reports, but not all may have advisories issued. Doubly so if the finding happens before the affected code had first shipped in a release (so buggy code gets checked in, then internal testing finds a security bug in it before it ships, and that bug is fixed).
Re:Google reveals fistful of flaws in Apple's iMessage app
by qarlow on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @05:02PM
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I don't think that is the point though so much as that Google has one standard for their internal findings and another for project zero, which also deals with other companies with the justification that it is better. Mozilla doesn't audit other companies so what they do with their internal finding isn't relevant for that argument. One can of course argue whether it is good, or justified, or not. But I don't think that changes that their is an argument there. If someone wanted to sue Google (ha!) over a project zero disclosure that is likely something they would try to argue. That Google knows that disclosing has consequences.
Regardless: that's a good point. I should have said, public disclosure of internal findings is not an industry norm. Mozilla is a good counterexample to the argument that everyone close-holds internal findings.