TheMadScientist - 6:11 pm on Jun 12, 2010 (gmt 0)

Is there anyone here posting about how this is solely a M$ issue and Google is perfectly fine not adhering to generally accepted practice who would not be absolutely up in arms, screaming 'lawsuit' at the top of their lungs if someone found a security flaw in your site and posted it here rather than letting you have a reasonable chance to fix it first, because it's your site and you're responsible for the security of it?

I doubt it...

Also, if Google wants to be respected as the leader, the company that follows their 'don't be evil' motto, and standard setter, then they need to do just that and follow standard and generally accepted industry practices, otherwise they're going to get what's going on here, because we all know if M$ did the same thing to them they'd be the ones lashing out in the press.

Someone from Google went deliberately looking for a hole and when they found one they only gave M$ days to fix it... If they had waited 30 days as is standard practice for a fix we probably wouldn't have anything negative to say about them making it public.

All Google had to do was follow the standards and accepted practices, but it seems even that is asking too much of them. Maybe because it's not their system or computer at risk, it's yours...

ADDED: Think about it this way for a minute:
Google's not going to lose anything from this.
Microsoft is not going to lose anything from this.

It's You, Your Mom, Your Kids, Your Friends, Your Family making this public without a fix puts at risk...
Are people really thinking Google's Employee behaved responsibly? Really?

They didn't put M$ or G at risk... G doesn't use it (AFAIK) and you need M$ to run all your software, so they're not going to lose anything, so who's at risk? Everyone who could have the hole Google's Employee found exploited, which happens to be everyone who run Windows...

[edited by: TheMadScientist at 7:01 pm (utc) on Jun 12, 2010]