Posted by Aaron Rainbolt on Nov 09 I mean, if someone with knowledge of a 0-day decides to act maliciously, I'd much rather them do so by making said 0-day public than by selling it to someone or weaponizing it themselves. If I could encourage everyone in the world with knowledge of a 0-day and desire to act maliciously to post it publicly instead of doing anything worse, I would in a heartbeat. (Of course, I'd rather be able to make them all decide to not behave...
"Malicious" public disclosure is a lot better than other ways of misusing 0-days (Was: [oss-security] Home Assistant: the password is not the key — token secrets in cleartext, two token classes never expire, password change revokes none (2026.11.0, live-p
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