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Responsible disclosure does not prevent negative publicity. It provides the vendor with a grace period during which they can fix the vulnerability. There can be plenty of negative publicity once the vulnerability is patched and publicly disclosed. Encouraging irresponsible disclosure because one wants to see Apple hurt is a reckless and selfish attitude because it puts millions of Apple customers at risk in the proce…
And Full disclosure is about protecting users of a software, not letting the vendor off the hook. Here, the hack and the fix are so trivial the responsible thing to do is to publicly call out Apple for its lack of QA and warn users directly. It affects everybody who runs High Sierra. > it puts millions of Apple customers at risk in the process. Nah, it's Apple which put millions of customers at risk, not the person w…
Yes, it's Apple's fault for poor QA that this was released, but this guy also put users at risk by telling the entire world about it without giving Apple a chance to fix it.
You're right, it's about user security before publicity. So make sure users are safe first.