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This is the debate about Full/Responsible/Non-Disclosure. With Full Disclosure, users, admins and pirates alike get the same information at the same time, meaning that you, user might be able to protect yourself (add a line to your WAF filter, add a block on your FW, etc.).

On the other hand, I note that proprietary software is flawed with tons of 0 day (I'm thinking about Flash lately), whereas the self-proclaimed most security-oriented open-source projects only have a tiny number of unsafe code (I'm thinking about OpenBSD "Only 2 remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!")




>Only 2 remote holes in the default install

Except no one uses the default install and these types of claims just incentivize making the default as sparse as possible. Things change when you deploy your stack, use ssl, etc, etc.




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