Was the Netscape Flaw Over-Publicized?

[Timothy C. May]

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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