Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Following the publication of a new data security vulnerability affecting the recently shipped Android phone, Cnet has explained the reasoning of the leak.
The website explained that while Google has hit out at network security analyst Charlie Miller for failing to give them time to fix the bug, many researchers prefer not to do so in instances where companies have been slow to react or failed to attribute discovery of the fault to them.
"If Google wants researchers to come to it first with vulnerability information, it is only fair to expect that Google be forthcoming with the community (and the general public)," Cnet commentator Chris Soghoian insisted.
He went on to claim that in the past, Google has failed to interact with product testers, thereby encouraging them to release details of exploits straight into the public domain.
Announcing the Android flaw, Miller went to the New York Times, an action which Google has criticized on the grounds that he had betrayed an "unwritten code" in doing so.
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