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Full disclosure

Posted Aug 17, 2008 9:55 UTC (Sun) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750)
In reply to: Full disclosure by fatherted
Parent article: An update on Fedora's "issues"

One cannot judge them before the details are known. Of course more knowledge would be nice,
but it may be the best way the situation could be handled is being done.

I think this is a bit same than around here (probably everywhere) when there is some tragic
accident, some people always shout that "people need to know!!" just because they are curious
and want to read everything terrible from tabloids, even though actually minimizing the
tragedy and trying to investigate could rather need secrecy.

If they do not know the exact problem, and have a reason to believe hostile people could
theoretically do something bad if they would let some non-full knowledge to the public,
secrecy is the only way to try to minimize risks.

If it turns out more information should have been let out earlier to minimize risks, then they
chose wrong. Let's see.


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