To Tell or Not to Tell (O/S Vunerabilities)

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This article centres around whether its responsible to declare a vunerability before it can be patched and whether O/S (operating system) providers are getting lax and dragging their heels over patching the flaws once found.

http://news.com.com/Flaw+finders+go+the ... 50430.html
In the past, many hackers and security researchers outed glitches without much thought of the impact on Internet users. Microsoft, among others, changed this. As part of its 3-year-old "Trustworthy Computing" initiative to tame security problems in its software, the began an outreach program to support the work of the security community. At the same time, it started chastising those researchers who, it believed, released details of flaws too early.
An interesting read :)
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