Re: [gpsd-dev] Moving ntpd to an open VCS

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Harlan!

On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 07:38:35 +0000
Harlan Stenn <address@hidden> wrote:

> > security patches private is not generally accepted by the
> > open-source community.  I'm not going to argue the merits here
> > because my personal views are not very relevant; what matters is
> > the social fact that most open source developers are fans of prompt
> > full disclosure, or at most a very short timeout. The minority that
> > partially agrees with you will not save you on any of these other
> > issues.
> 
> I used to be in this camp of the open-source community.  I might still
> be, depending on the definition of "prompt".  The NTP Project's
> software is core infrastructure stuff.  It's not something people
> generally casually install.  If we get a security report, we contact
> folks like CERT and they get back to us and usually ask for at least
> a 45 day disclosure embargo after we get them patches so the OS
> vendors and various gov't agencies can prepare for the "announcement".

Yes, you really need to give the NSA a chance to exploit your bugs before
anyone can patch them.

RGDS
GARY
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