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Comment by hinkley

1 month ago

No, because we've already had documented cases of people socially engineering exploits into OSS projects.

See also https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Confused_deputy_problem

You don't need permission to publish an exploit, you just need someone or something else to do it for you.

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