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masklinn on Jan 19, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Meltdown and Spectre Linux Kernel Status

> But these are two sides of the same coin.

No, they are not.

> The more groups of people you tell about the vulnerability early, the greater the risk that someone is going to break the embargo.

Groups have different levels of trustability, disclosing to more trustable groups is less risky than disclosing to a single untrustable group.

euyyn on Jan 19, 2018 [–]

Colin's disappointment with the Linux community implies he did trust them. On hindsight it's easy to tell "well, you should have disclosed it to all the people that wouldn't leak it, and only those".

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