Bug Policy --- Admins need to enforce this

[D.H.]

see? wikipedia disagree with you.

Not really. Here's some more text from that wikipedia page (also, note that BTCrow wrote "ethical full-disclosure"):

Even among those who believe in disclosure there are differing policies about when, to whom, and how much to disclose.
Some believe that in the absence of any public exploits for the problem, full and public disclosure should be preceded by disclosure of the vulnerability to the vendors or authors of the system. This private advance disclosure allows the vendor time to produce a fix or workaround. This philosophy is sometimes called responsible disclosure.

[kokjo]

uuhhh! people are really mad at me.
i do as i do, work with it!

say i found a flaw in mtgox, that allowed me to empty random accounts.
if i just publicly showed people how to do it, they would fastly abandon mtgox, beacuse it was insecure.

problem solved!  

[Yuusha]

uuhhh! people are really mad at me.
i do as i do, work with it!

say i found a flaw in mtgox, that allowed me to empty random accounts.
if i just publicly showed people how to do it, they would fastly abandon mtgox, beacuse it was insecure.

problem solved!  

It would be a better idea to follow these steps:

1. Inform MtGox about the flaw so they are given a chance to fix it.
2. If it is not fixed, tell people that there is a flaw that MtGox refuses to fix, so they should empty their accounts, but do not post any details.
2a. After people have been given a chance to withdraw their funds and abandon MtGox, post the full details.
3. If the problem is fixed, post the flaw, in full, on the forum. Then people can decide on their own if MtGox should be abandoned or not.

Otherwise, people may not even have a chance to abandon MtGox. All their money may get stolen, because of you.

[kokjo]

uuhhh! people are really mad at me.
i do as i do, work with it!

say i found a flaw in mtgox, that allowed me to empty random accounts.
if i just publicly showed people how to do it, they would fastly abandon mtgox, beacuse it was insecure.

problem solved!  

It would be a better idea to follow these steps:

1. Inform MtGox about the flaw so they are given a chance to fix it.
2. If it is not fixed, tell people that there is a flaw that MtGox refuses to fix, so they should empty their accounts, but do not post any details.
2a. After people have been given a chance to withdraw their funds and abandon MtGox, post the full details.
3. If the problem is fixed, post the flaw, in full, on the forum. Then people can decide on their own if MtGox should be abandoned or not.

Otherwise, people may not even have a chance to abandon MtGox. All their money may get stolen, because of you.

i don't care, about the other users. i did nothing wrong. i published information, are you gonna censor me?
i is not responsibly to take care of mtgox's users.
its also too complicated the whole 3-4 step thing.
much simpler with a 1 step thing.

[Yuusha]

I'd say it's everyone's responsibility to not be an asshole.

[kokjo]

I'd say it's everyone's responsibility to not be an asshole.

are you insulting me because of my opinion?

[Yuusha]

No, I'm calling you an asshole because you've made an asshole move.

"If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck."

[kokjo]

No, I'm calling you an asshole because you've made an asshole move.

"If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck."

are you an asshole too then?
non-asshole are not insulting people.

[BTCrow]

uuhhh! people are really mad at me.
i do as i do, work with it!

say i found a flaw in mtgox, that allowed me to empty random accounts.
if i just publicly showed people how to do it, they would fastly abandon mtgox, beacuse it was insecure.

problem solved!  

The point is that your act will create a higher risk of security incident for mtgox in this example.

The only benefit will be rewarded to you (and maybe not cause you're gonna be flamed lol) because you found a 1337 bug into.
So in this case only the ego of bug finder will benefit it.

[Yuusha]

Look, I didn't even directly call you an asshole. I said it was an asshole move to expose everyone's money to a security risk. You only took offense because you yourself have committed this act. This is akin to a murderer taking offense to someone saying murderers are criminals and sinners.

[BTCrow]

more flame more lol *popcorn*

[kokjo]

Look, I didn't even directly call you an asshole. I said it was an asshole move to expose everyone's money to a security risk. You only took offense because you yourself have committed this act. This is akin to a murderer taking offense to someone saying murderers are criminals and sinners.

are you saying that i have stolen?
say if i did have a exploit against mtgox.
i could steal anyone's money.
i did not do that, i just released the exploit to the forum.

how does that make me a bad person?
are locksmiths also bad then? they can unlock people doors?

[Xephan]

Why do I get the feeling that's not a real penguin in kokjo's avatar but a troll in disguise?

[Yuusha]

are you saying that i have stolen?
say if i did have a exploit against mtgox.
i could steal anyone's money.
i did not do that, i just released the exploit to the forum.

how does that make me a bad person?
are locksmiths also bad then? they can unlock people doors?

Locksmiths in general are not bad, no. But if a locksmith handed out keys to the bank to everyone in town, then yes, that person is bad.

[BTCrow]

Look, I didn't even directly call you an asshole. I said it was an asshole move to expose everyone's money to a security risk. You only took offense because you yourself have committed this act. This is akin to a murderer taking offense to someone saying murderers are criminals and sinners.

are you saying that i have stolen?
say if i did have a exploit against mtgox.
i could steal anyone's money.
i did not do that, i just released the exploit to the forum.

how does that make me a bad person?
are locksmiths also bad then? they can unlock people doors?

Professional Locksmiths are not unlocking people doors for stealing their money or just to prove to other that they are able to unlock whatever they want. Doing this again will only benefit their ego, not helping people who forgot their keys to come back home.

[Xephan]

Look, I didn't even directly call you an asshole. I said it was an asshole move to expose everyone's money to a security risk. You only took offense because you yourself have committed this act. This is akin to a murderer taking offense to someone saying murderers are criminals and sinners.

are you saying that i have stolen?
say if i did have a exploit against mtgox.
i could steal anyone's money.
i did not do that, i just released the exploit to the forum.

how does that make me a bad person?
are locksmiths also bad then? they can unlock people doors?

Nah, it's not bad. It's just like if I found a loaded gun, and I passed it to a kid and tell him just point it at Kokjo and pull the trigger. It's not my fault if you got killed, I'm not a murderer, I could have killed you, but I didn't, I just released the weapon to a kid that's all. I'm sure you will understand and not blame me for anything

[Moussekateer]

Dear god I hope kokjo isn't given any actual responsibility in real life.

[D.H.]

i don't care, about the other users

This is where you differ from most people in this thread. End thread?

[petercyr]

kokjo, its pretty obvious that you're just trolling for attention. It does say "You are WRONG! " in your profile. Pretty much reflects how you're going about this conversation. You're acting like a child who doesn't give a crap about anything and anyone. Great way to be, really....

Full disclosure without giving the dev a reasonable amount of time to fix the issue is wrong. If there is a bug that no one has exploited yet and you tell the dev, they fix it, no one got screwed then you either make the dev publicly inform everyone, or if they refuse you do it for them... By then, no one has time to fuck the whole site and all the members included. You're not just harming the site. You're harming all the members, the bitcoin community. Its not like every member is listening to you waiting for you to say when something has a problem so they can bail. Lots of people stand to lose when you do that kind of shit.

With bitcoin being the way it is, anyone can start a service or exchange. There is no authority to certify the security of these sites. When one of them fucks up and lots of people lose, it screws with bitcoin as a whole. People lose faith. There's absolutely nothing positive behind what you're doing. Its not even positive for you if you have anything to do with bitcoin unless all you do is troll the forums.

Believe what you will. It doesn't make it right and it doesn't make your intentions honorable either.

[kokjo]

Dear god I hope kokjo isn't given any actual responsibility in real life.

it is not my responsibility that other people fuck up. really!

i have no problem taking care of my own shit, but i will not take care of others shit if they do not pay me for it.