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Was the Netscape Flaw Over-Publicized?
At 4:51 PM 9/21/95, Joe Tardo wrote:
>I can really empathize with what the developers at Netscape must be going
>through, but the 'social good' of raising security flaws to the level of the
>front page of the NYT is hard to deny. Rather than saying "security through
>obscurity is bad" you can point to a precedent of the consequences of being
>found out.
Furthermore, Ian Goldberg's message on Sunday night was a factual,
unsensationalized report of something he and Wagner discovered. The very
essence of objective reporting, I thought.
That so many reporters found it a newsworthy, even headline-worthy, story
is related to other factors.
--Tim May
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