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I am interested to hear your opinion: at what point should a vulnerability be considered unacceptable?


I dont even know what that would mean, to make an existing vulnerability 'unacceptable'.

Vulnerabilities of all kinds exist. We need to find them, learn from them and we need to fix them.

Getting hung up on whether or not they are 'acceptable' is just kind of weird.

Bad stuff happens, incompetence happens, mistakes happen. None of that is 'acceptable', but it happens just the same.

Creating an environment where some kinds of mistakes are 'unacceptable' doesn't eliminate those kinds of mistakes, it just causes people to stop reporting them.

Complaining about their release cycle makes some sense. complaining about the existence of an existing bug is basically just howling at the moon.


part of growing up is learning to become the kind of hypocrite you can live with.

if you think you operate and hold yourself to a much higher standard then go ahead and complain all you want. maybe you do... maybe




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