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Comment by sillysaurus3

It will be nice when "It's unethical to disclose security vulnerabilities immediately" mindset fades away: https://twitter.com/stits/status/845717835733094401

There's nothing wrong with publishing your findings immediately. It's not up to a security researcher to do a bunch of unpaid, extra work. Finding a bug is enough.

Which is better: Finding a bug and bringing attention to it, or someone malicious finding the bug? The latter is objectively worse, but people keep trying to punish researchers for not following the third path of "Report it in private, following strict and lengthy procedures, and make no mention of it until a timeline of their choosing."

It's a professional courtesy for someone to do that for free, but not a requirement, and it's certainly not unethical to tweet about it.

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