full-disclosure - A suggestion to all AV vendors...

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Message-ID: <87d5xfff9i.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>
From: fw at deneb.enyo.de (Florian Weimer)
Subject: A suggestion to all AV vendors...

* Valdis Kletnieks:

> It's still applying band-aids to a hemophiliac rather than supplying
> them with clotting factor.  The only *sustainable* long-term solution is
> to use software that was designed with a sane security model, so there's
> no *need* for a separate A/V product.

It's not just software.  You also need a plan B if the software fails,
whether it was written with security in mind or not.