Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public
Company finds a security vulnerability caused by a bug. Logs show that it has never been used by anyone. It patches the vulnerability.<p>[Honest question] Should the company announce it publicly?<p>PS: Keeping in mind that this is part of the Murdoch vs. Google war going on for about 10 years:<p><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2009/11/murdoch_vs_google.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2009/11/murdoch_vs_google...</a><p><a href="https://www.thedrum.com/news/2017/03/28/timing-everything-rupert-murdoch-s-google-rebellion-returns-news-corp-eyes-more-ad" rel="nofollow">https://www.thedrum.com/news/2017/03/28/timing-everything-ru...</a><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/22/16920254/news-corp-rupert-murdoch-carriage-fee-facebook-google-journalism-media" rel="nofollow">https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/22/16920254/news-corp-rupert...</a><p>[Edit: added the "Honest Question" tag]<p>Edit 2: Related post by Google:<p><a href="https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strobe/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strob...</a>