Comment: Users have a right to know
Vendors are coming under increasing attack from security professionals for their resistance to the full and prompt disclosure of software flaws - and rightly so, writes Neil Barrett
And so the debate about full disclosure of software security flaws raises its head yet again. A recent report suggests that as many as three in four security professionals believe that full disclosure...
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