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Efail: What A Disclosure FAIL That Was! (RBS article)

2018/05/16: Article criticizing the handling of the EFAIL vulnerabilities disclosureRead more

A Call for Better Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (Microsoft and Google Project Zero)

2015/01/11 : Microsoft made a call for better coordinated vulnerability disclosure after that "Google has released information about a vulnerability in a Microsoft product, two days before [their] planned fix on [their] well known and coordinated Patch Tuesday cadence, despite [their]...Read more

Three Minutes with Rain Forest Puppy (RFP interview by Zetter)

2001/09/28 : Here is a Rain Forest Puppy interview done by Kim Zetter about the RFPolicy.

In June 2000, the hacker Rain Forest Puppy published his RFPolicy. The policy is known as the first attempt to formalize the complex issue of disclosure to the vendor or maintainer....Read more

Software Vulnerabilities: Full-, Responsible-, and Non-Disclosure - (Cencini, Yu and Chan publication)

2005/12/07 : Andrew Cencini, Kevin Yu, Tony Chan write upon the different choices of vulnerability disclosures.

"When a software vulnerability is discovered by a third party, the complex question of who, what...Read more

FIRST Guidelines and Practices for Multi-Party Vulnerability Coordination and Disclosure Version 1.1 2020

Spring 2020 : Here is the Version 1.1 of the FIRST Guidelines and Practices for Multi-Party Vulnerability Coordination and Disclosure. 

This artifact is part of the FIRST Vulnerability Disclosure Bundle...Read more

CERT/CC Overview

2000/10 : CERT/CC is committed to a responsible policy. All vulnerabilities reported to the CERT/CC will be disclosed to the public 45 days after the initial report, regardless of the existence or availability of patches or workarounds from affected vendors.

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A Step Towards Information Anarchy: A Call To Arms - hellNbak

2001 : Hellnbak proposes to enter the war against Culp's idea to "end information anarchy". Regarding to him, security should not be a question of calm business but more about safe and well-informed public.

This artifact is part of the ...Read more

ACM: Digital Library: Computers and Society - Bollinger paper

2004/12 : Jeff Bollinger explains his point of view in the vulnerability disclosure debate.

"To effect the optimal result of 'greatest good', each player in the disclosure process must agree and co-ordinate to achieve the greatest return, and lowest damages." (p.14)

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How do we define Responsible Disclosure? - Shepherd

2003/04/22 : Stephen A. Shepherd define what is responsible disclosure and make a summary of vulnerability disclosure history at this stage.Read more

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