Fair enough, but you're still throwing around the insults, "too much time on his hands"?. We believe consumers should be allowed to know about design flaws in the products they use, you don't have to agree, but why the insults and questioning our motivations?
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Replying to @taviso @JeroenJacobs79 and
Think about it like this, if you knew about a design flaw that cars from manufacturer X had a chance to explode in the first 100 miles, should you keep it quiet because consumers might "panic" and delay buying a new car for a while?
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Replying to @taviso @JeroenJacobs79 and
I think you would say yes, it's okay to put consumers at risk to protect business interests, you should give the manufacturer time to fix it. I would say no, you shouldn't hide truthful verifiable product safety information from consumers to protect a billion dollar corporation.
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Replying to @taviso @alexstamos and
I'm gonna turn the question back to you: If you are a manufacturer, and something is seriously wrong with the safety of your product: would you like to be notified by mass media, or by the person who discovered it?
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Replying to @JeroenJacobs79 @alexstamos and
The person who discovered it for sure, that way I can make sure customers don't hear about it and choose a competitor with a better safety record or make expensive demands like "better qa"? ...Is that a good thing?
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Replying to @taviso @alexstamos and
Oh ok, I f that is what you believe. I must have imagined pro-active recalls of cars by manufacturers then...
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Replying to @JeroenJacobs79 @alexstamos and
There are laws in place governing car safety now, those laws exist because of things like "the pinto memo" (google it). So yes, I think without laws, manufacturers will create pinto memos.... because that's what they did?
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Replying to @taviso @alexstamos and
You know what? You are right... about everything. Have a good day :-)
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Replying to @JeroenJacobs79 @alexstamos and
You're pretty easy to rattle for someone who was throwing around the insults earlier, I guess it's not as clear cut as you thought?
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Replying to @taviso @alexstamos and
I realise we won't change each other minds ever, so it's better to let it go ;-)
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I've worked on vulnerability research and disclosure professionally for a long time, and thought about these problems a lot. I don't think you have any arguments I haven't heard before, but insults and questioning motivations isn't the way to convince people!
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