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>Disclosing this as such was irresponsible

How so? Is allowing a company a chance to patch a bug a responsibility that random people have to a company? What do those people get in return? Some companies will go as far as accusing the reporter of hacking them.

I might even go as far to say that if companies expect to be told of bugs and not have the information released to the wild, they will be less concerned with security because they can always patch the bugs as they come and perform the smallest disclosure they know of. Such an idea of 'responsible disclosure' may lead to less security overall.

Perhaps the responsible thing is reporting the breach to the public because they are the ones most hurt by it, so they can take immediate corrective actions.




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