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Anything that makes people more aware of security issues, what's involved in exploiting vulnerabilities, and how the other side things about these things, is a very good thing.

The vast majority of programmers don't know a thing about security. Anything that can be done to improve that, even in the slightest, is a great thing for this world.



Like I said, I'm not in favor of keeping it a secret, and I am all for making people aware, but "making people aware" does not have to be giving copy/paste examples to script kiddies of how to do the exploit within 24 hours of it being reported.


Exactly. OSX had very bad security before the first big news on virus's, and it won't have good security before another thousand big news on virus's, trojans and backdoors.




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