Bad move
Why?
Don’t work for the fascist who wants world domination, panopticon, for free. Work for a people’s project for freedom.
To put it another way:
jsiepkes 2 hours ago | root | parent | next [–]
Google isn’t doing this because they think this is best for all of this. They are doing it because it is best for Google. This is like when companies say they hate regulation, except for when they can weaponize it to bully (smaller) competition.
None of that seems relevant to the policy change at all, to be honest.
It’s reasonable to have shorter disclosure timelines given that exploit timelines have become drastically shorter in recent months. 120 days was already a huge amount of time - if you have been informed of an exploitable 0day, you are expected to start producing a fix immediately.


