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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 19:23:45 -0500
From: Nicholas Luedtke <nicholas.luedtke@....com>
To: <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: How to deal with reporters who don't want their
 bugs fixed?

On 1/18/2018 5:01 PM, Solar Designer wrote:

> I think "semi-public" is the worst state an issue can be in, making the
> above suggestion the worst of those mentioned in this thread so far.

In my extremely humble opinion, a patched "semi-public" issue is better
than a unpatched private issue that is known to unknown number of people
with unknown intentions.

-Nicholas

Apologies for sending this off list Alexander. 




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