IPv6 Attack Kills Mac OS X and makes Windows Server 2012 restart in Seconds
Disclosure to Apple - Apple notified 12-11-12.<p>I often wonder why disclosures of these types of exploits is now, "same day" instead of "Let vendor know you will be reporting this to public in a week."<p>I wonder if it is out of concern they will be pressured to keep quiet?<p>There is a good practical reason for not providing advance disclosure at major conference, particularly if you're subject to some kind of NDA, because, more often then not, the security researcher faces the risk of legal action and being shut down.<p>That pattern, though, "We are going to announce a security hole in major vendor product" followed by, "Shut down by legal action" - happens so frequently that I often wonder whether that's actually part of some larger pattern of entrepreneurial behavior that's opaque to me, it happens so frequently.  Maybe it enhances your reputation?  Gets you in the news?<p>I'm all for full disclosure, but, it might be nice to give the vendor a week to have a patch that can roll out at the same time as you let the world know what you found.