Dear Travis,

On Oct 6, 2014, at 9:08 PM, Travis Biehn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greg,
> When someone else discovers an issue with your product and you find out about 
> it - you should be thankful.
> 
I was thankful. I literally thanked him.

> In fact "irresponsible disclosure" supposes that this vulnerability was 
> difficult to uncover. If the vulnerability was particularly easy -for any 
> threat actor- to uncover then an argument can be made that delaying 
> disclosure is irresponsible.
> 

Could you please give me a time estimate on this delay that you are talking 
about?

I believe clicking on the email I gave him would take approximately the same 
amount of time as replying to the list, but I could be mistaken.

Kind regards,
Greg

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> They could have just as easily sold the bug silently to the intelligence 
> community  - or let you otherwise continue to produce insecure software.
> 
> In fact "irresponsible disclosure" supposes that this vulnerability was 
> difficult to uncover. If the vulnerability was particularly easy -for any 
> threat actor- to uncover then an argument can be made that delaying 
> disclosure is irresponsible.
> 
> Travis
> 
> On Oct 6, 2014 11:11 PM, "Greg" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Oct 6, 2014, at 7:21 PM, Collin Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Here I attempted to make a professional point that you are purporting to 
>> offer software to an audience whose needs you do not seem to be able to 
>> serve. Your seriousness in regard to the obligations that those needs incur 
>> seems to have only come up to denigrate Steve for having laid bare the 
>> situation, and in what appears to have been a few minutes worth of research.
> 
> Irresponsible disclosure is a serious problem, yes.
> 
> Are you endorsing irresponsible disclosure...?
> 
>> No, I kept my trolling to Twitter. Fun was had by many.
> 
> 
> And you are actually proud of trolling...?
> 
> Not sure what's so difficult about asking us to just change the text. We're 
> happy to address you concerns. You don't need to troll us to get a response, 
> in fact you're more likely to get a better one when you don't troll.
> 
>> Rather than this blasé and hostile attitude, you should have expressed some 
>> shame for using this community to push your software.
> 
> Someone wanted to know about truecrypt alternatives, and I here was my reply:
> 
> See this list on ArsTechnica's forum:
> 
> http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1245367
> 
> I work for Tao Effect LLC, our software is on that list, and you can read 
> about how its plausible deniability compares to TrueCrypt's here (forgive 
> this subreddit's insane color scheme):
> 
> http://www.reddit.com/r/security/comments/2b5icu/major_advancements_in_deniable_encryption_arrive/cj24a1n
> 
> In case anyone on this list wants a license, here's a code for 15% off: 
> LIBERATIONTECH
> 
> There are 10 of them and you can use them on espionageapp.com. They expire 
> November 1st.
> 
> 
>> But you haven't. Let us know when Steve's bug has a CVE number.
> 
> 
> Sure, I can do that for you. :)
> 
> I can also change the website's wording for you. Just send us an email with 
> how you would prefer we phrase our website's text: [email protected]
> 
> Kind regards,
> Greg Slepak
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