full-disclosure - Re: 0day Vulnerability in VLC (this is my first release of the vuln anywhere)

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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:06:43 +0300
From: Georgi Guninski <guninski@...inski.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: 0day Vulnerability in VLC (this is my first
 release of the vuln anywhere)

Valdis,

You are teaching me how to behave, outsourcing _your problems_ to me.

Let me suggest you ``responsible people'' fix the problem yourselves.
One approach is to work hard, find the bugs and report them --
in this case you won't depend on people like me.
It ain't going to be easy, future versions will bring new bugs.

btw, I wouldn't bother to do this smalltalk, but someone
repeatedly spammed about responsible disclosure so I thought
other opinions should be heard.

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:13:13PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:51:55 +0300, Georgi Guninski said:
> > Completely disagree.
> >
> > IMHO nobody should bother negotiating with terrorist vendors.
> >
> > Q: What responsibility vendors have?
> > A: Zero. Check their disclaimers.
> 
> And disclaimer or no disclaimer, there's a lot of vendors who want to
> Do The Right Thing and fix their stuff to protect their users (if for
> no other reason than the possibility of lost customers if they ignore
> security issues too often).
> 
> If you're a black hat, do whatever the heck you want.
> 
> If you're a white hat, be responsible and at least try to engage the
> vendor.  If you're worried about being stiffed for the credit for the
> find, write the advisory and post the MD5 hash somewhere before contacting
> the vendor.  If they respond and work on the problem, the process works.
> If they blow you off, go blackhat and do whatever the heck you want. :)
> 
> Now wasn't that easy? :)

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