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I was responding to a comment that (I interpreted) to be talking in more general terms than the scope of the article.



Even in the scope of the original comment, doesn't it create a pretty perverse incentive to allow companies to mark HackerOne bugs as WONTFIX and then ban researchers who disclose them?

Isn't security through obscurity largely to be avoided? I thought the working model for most security researchers was: if it's not worth fixing, it's not worth hiding.

More to the point, I thought that responsible disclosure always came with an expectation of public disclosure. The advice I've always been given is that you should never disclose with conditions -- ie. "fix this and I won't tell anyone."

It should always be, "I am going to tell everyone, but I'm telling you first so you can push a fix before I do."

Does HackerOne operate under different rules?




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