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Security flaws are bugs. They should be prioritised along with the rest.



That's what 37Signals has done. They've simply put it at the bottom of their list, behind adjusting the pixel alignment of their sidebars.


And yet they're still making plenty of money. Security would be taken seriously if users gave a damn. But they don't.


Depends on who you're talking about. An XSS vulnerability in a web app will get you shelved at a Fortune 500 company. When new apps get deployed on customer DMZs, third party audits happen. When they find vulnerabilities, you spin dot releases. On a typical 4/2 dev/qa dev team, in the hopelessly optimistic case where you can turn a QA'd dot release in 2 weeks, you just lost $37,500.


I do. Look, most users cannot care about this vulnerability because they don't even know about it. Besides, most of them have a good reason not to understand the implications: it's not their job.

I think users deserve more respect even if they're incompetent out of their fields of competence.




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