Comment by incrudible
4 years ago
Again, that's not the same, because then they will look for problems. What you want to test is that they're looking for problems all the time, on every patch, without you telling them to do so.
If they don't, then that's the vulnerability in the process.
> because then they will look for problems. What you want to test is that they're looking for problems all the time, on every patch, without you telling them to do so.
That's what they do every time.
Telling them in advance will potentially make them more alert for problem coming from specific source. It will introduce bias.
The best they can do is notify the maintainers after they got the result for their research and give the maintainers an easy way to recover from vulnerability they intentionally create.