Re:Ridiculous vulnerability disclosure process with CrowdStr...
by tptacek on Monday August 22, 2022 @06:30PM
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I'm sorry, but I think you're just kind of making things up here to perpetuate an unproductive argument. By "conservative", I meant that CERT is broadly anti-disclosure in all forms, which I think is a claim that pretty much anyone working in vulnerability research would recognize.
Here's the 2002 I-D that Weld worked on with Steve Christey standardizing the term. It's notable for being roughly contemporaneous with @stake firing Dan Geer over, as I recall, somehow alienating Microsoft, one of @stake's larger clients.
Your link, for what it's worth, doesn't use the term at all. But even if it had, it wouldn't change anything.
Just to keep this on track: your claim was that "Coordinated Disclosure" --- the near-universal standard term for what used to be called "Responsible Disclosure" --- is an "Orwellian re-imagining". Leaving aside the fact that there's nothing intrinsically "Orwellian" about renaming something, the fact remains: "Responsible Disclosure" was researcher-hostile and patronizing, and has been chucked out the window by almost everybody who matters in vulnerability research.
We've managed to hash out a hot topic from, like, 2012 on this thread, which is great, it's progress, we move forward bit by bit here on HN, just like Joel Spolsky once said; "fire and motion". But we can probably be done now.
Here's the 2002 I-D that Weld worked on with Steve Christey standardizing the term. It's notable for being roughly contemporaneous with @stake firing Dan Geer over, as I recall, somehow alienating Microsoft, one of @stake's larger clients.
https://cve.mitre.org/data/board/archives/2002-02/msg00026.h...
Your link, for what it's worth, doesn't use the term at all. But even if it had, it wouldn't change anything.
Just to keep this on track: your claim was that "Coordinated Disclosure" --- the near-universal standard term for what used to be called "Responsible Disclosure" --- is an "Orwellian re-imagining". Leaving aside the fact that there's nothing intrinsically "Orwellian" about renaming something, the fact remains: "Responsible Disclosure" was researcher-hostile and patronizing, and has been chucked out the window by almost everybody who matters in vulnerability research.
We've managed to hash out a hot topic from, like, 2012 on this thread, which is great, it's progress, we move forward bit by bit here on HN, just like Joel Spolsky once said; "fire and motion". But we can probably be done now.