Comments on: MOTB – Month of Twitter Bugs http://www.devexp.eu/2009/06/19/motb-month-of-twitter-bugs/ DEVelopment EXPerience, shared with the world! Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:00:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ben Haines http://www.devexp.eu/2009/06/19/motb-month-of-twitter-bugs/comment-page-1/#comment-385 Ben Haines Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:14:10 +0000 http://www.devexp.eu/?p=834#comment-385 Typically critical vulnerabilities will be communicated to the developers/service provider with a deadline to respond before the vulnerability is published. If necessary the publication of the vulnerability can then be postponed. The recent critical vulnerability in DNS is a perfect example of where a very small number of organisations and people were given the technical details of the vulnerability. That way all critical infrastructure could be updated before the vulnerability was made public. Fortunately Twitter isn't quite as key to the Internet as DNS is ;) Typically critical vulnerabilities will be communicated to the developers/service provider with a deadline to respond before the vulnerability is published. If necessary the publication of the vulnerability can then be postponed.

The recent critical vulnerability in DNS is a perfect example of where a very small number of organisations and people were given the technical details of the vulnerability. That way all critical infrastructure could be updated before the vulnerability was made public.

Fortunately Twitter isn’t quite as key to the Internet as DNS is ;)

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