Google amends disclosure policy to encourage 'thorough' security patches from developers

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Google will now wait for at least 90 days before disclosing bug details

Google's Project Zero team has made changes to its disclosure policy to give vendors more time to create "thorough" patches for security flaws uncovered in their applications. Under the revised ...

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