full-disclosure - Re: Vulnerabilities in *McAfee.com

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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:39:44 -0400
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: jacqui.caren@...world.com
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Vulnerabilities in *McAfee.com

On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:18:08 BST, Jacqui Caren-home said:
> A lot of businesses do not consider "constructive criticism" as positive and
> will sometimes do everything in thier power to "PR" you to death - its
> often seen as cheaper than fixing the problem.

In fact, it often *is* cheaper than actually fixing the problem (especially
when the reported problem is "3 pages are vulnerable to XSS", but the
actual problem is "48,394 pages are vulnerable to XSS" or similar).

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