I feel sorry for all the security pros outside of gmail and google, so I say the below on behalf of them...
Should the general public be expecting a disclosure of the vulnerability to security mailing lists once a solution has been implemented to patch the hole, so other web-based services are aware of the possibility of the same problem being an issue for them, or should gmail be keeping everything secret after they patch. I guess if gmail team did not want to make a public disclosure of the vulnerability, the gmail folks would send a private e-mail to people like yahoo, if it was found to be a current issue for other webbased e-mail services, or in future possibilities. If none of the above, can we expect the "hacker" to make an announcement once he has heard back from the vendor that a solution and patch has been implemented. If this was a private disclosure, then no one would be asking for a public announcement of the vulnerability, but since this has been made into a public, high profile disclosure, is it not right in the public interest for ethier the "hacker" or gmail team to make the vulnerability known, after its safe to do so. Thanks, n3td3v _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
