Re: [Development] Proposal: Change Qt's Security Policy to Full Disclosure

2012-10-25 Thread Knoll Lars
Let's close this topic. It's not always the one who shouts loudest that wins an argument. We have a closed security mailing list, and I want to keep it that way. That seems to also be in agreement with the majority of the maintainers who have been dealing with this topic. The members of the

Re: [Development] Proposal: Change Qt's Security Policy to Full Disclosure

2012-10-24 Thread Samuel Rødal
On 10/24/2012 01:12 AM, d3fault wrote: On 10/23/12, Lincoln Ramsay a1291...@gmail.com wrote: We're not renaming things or creating new lists just to match the names you think we should have. *sigh*, I had a feeling someone would say something like that. The changes are trivial at a glance,

Re: [Development] Proposal: Change Qt's Security Policy to Full Disclosure

2012-10-24 Thread d3fault
On 10/24/12, Samuel Rødal samuel.ro...@digia.com wrote: Lars and Charles both provided good lists of reasons in another part of this thread for going with the policy of Responsible Disclosure. Clearly you disagree on the weighting of the pros and cons, but it doesn't seem like you're able to

Re: [Development] Proposal: Change Qt's Security Policy to Full Disclosure

2012-10-24 Thread d3fault
tl;dr: d3fault if you keep up the good work you can join the security team the security team is for trustworthy individuals d3fault, we don't trust you How is my keeping up the good work earning trust? Do you guys really not see the gaping hole in that logic? d3fault

Re: [Development] Proposal: Change Qt's Security Policy to Full Disclosure

2012-10-24 Thread Zeno Albisser
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:55 AM, d3fault d3faultdot...@gmail.com wrote: tl;dr: How is my keeping up the good work earning trust? Do you guys really not see the gaping hole in that logic? I do certainly have problem trusting people that show that much interest in getting access to all

Re: [Development] Proposal: Change Qt's Security Policy to Full Disclosure

2012-10-24 Thread d3fault
Please disregard Zeno's personal attacks towards me and his request that the subject die and we all move on. His type of email is exactly what I describe two emails back. Waste (so is this one, except to keep the subject alive). If you can't say something relevant [to the argument], don't say

Re: [Development] Proposal: Change Qt's Security Policy to Full Disclosure

2012-10-24 Thread Samuel Rødal
On 10/24/2012 11:30 AM, d3fault wrote: On 10/24/12, Samuel Rødal samuel.ro...@digia.com wrote: Lars and Charles both provided good lists of reasons in another part of this thread for going with the policy of Responsible Disclosure. Clearly you disagree on the weighting of the pros and cons,

Re: [Development] Proposal: Change Qt's Security Policy to Full Disclosure

2012-10-24 Thread d3fault
On 10/24/12, Samuel Rødal samuel.ro...@digia.com wrote: As far as I see it all the options have vulnerabilities, so it shouldn't be hard to prove that they exist within either approach. Yep. Close one giant security-through-obscurity vulnerability, open the door for script kiddies. It's a

Re: [Development] Proposal: Change Qt's Security Policy to Full Disclosure

2012-10-23 Thread Lincoln Ramsay
On 23/10/12 15:10, d3fault wrote: Also please tell me why I can't join the Qt Security Team without contradicting yourselves. You haven't earned the trust of the people in charge. The current security team members have earned the trust of the people in charge. No contradictions there. --

Re: [Development] Proposal: Change Qt's Security Policy to Full Disclosure

2012-10-23 Thread d3fault
You haven't earned the trust of the people in charge. The current security team members have earned the trust of the people in charge. No contradictions there. Why do they need to trust me? Because the information is dangerous. By admitting that the information is dangerous, they are

Re: [Development] Proposal: Change Qt's Security Policy to Full Disclosure

2012-10-23 Thread d3fault
On 10/23/12, d3fault d3faultdot...@gmail.com wrote: You're like the priests in the early days hiding information (the ability to read and write) and trying to convince us it's for our own good. Time will tell who is right. su time; echo d3fault is right; exit; That analogy fits better than I

Re: [Development] Proposal: Change Qt's Security Policy to Full Disclosure

2012-10-23 Thread d3fault
On 10/23/12, Donald Carr sirsp...@gmail.com wrote: life is clearly not a popularity contest for d3fault. rofl thank you for that compliment. better than Charley telling me I'm smart repeatedly -_- I agree completely!!! It's just that the recommended/officially-endorsed way of reporting

Re: [Development] Proposal: Change Qt's Security Policy to Full Disclosure

2012-10-23 Thread Lincoln Ramsay
On 24/10/12 07:01, d3fault wrote: If you discover a vulnerability, please report it to secur...@qt-project.org and we'll take care of the rest. You can of course join in on the discussion and suggest fixes etc, as Qt is a COLLABORATIVE PROJECT. If you think the vulnerability would cause harm

Re: [Development] Proposal: Change Qt's Security Policy to Full Disclosure

2012-10-23 Thread d3fault
On 10/23/12, Lincoln Ramsay a1291...@gmail.com wrote: We're not renaming things or creating new lists just to match the names you think we should have. *sigh*, I had a feeling someone would say something like that. The changes are trivial at a glance, yes ...but what the Qt Project

Re: [Development] Proposal: Change Qt's Security Policy to Full Disclosure

2012-10-22 Thread d3fault
May I have a list of the core security team members who I am forced to entrust the security of my operations unto, so that I may hire private detectives to do background checks on them (and also sneak into their homes while they're away to perform a security analysis on their machines)? Thanks

Re: [Development] Proposal: Change Qt's Security Policy to Full Disclosure

2012-10-21 Thread Holger Hans Peter Freyther
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:19:40AM -0700, d3fault wrote: Mathematical Truth: It is better: To be vulnerable and know it (so you can shut down your machine or unplug dat ethernet cable). most secure == always off. But that is probably not practical. But then again security is not a state but

Re: [Development] Proposal: Change Qt's Security Policy to Full Disclosure

2012-10-21 Thread d3fault
http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~tdumitra/public_documents/bilge12_zero_day.pdf Interesting article, but it tells us nothing. They merely talk about Full vs. Responsible Disclosure, and they admit that it's an ongoing debate. The overall conclusion after 12 pages in the article: the disclosure of

Re: [Development] Proposal: Change Qt's Security Policy to Full Disclosure

2012-10-21 Thread d3fault
On Oct 21, 2012 8:24 PM, Joseph Crowell joseph.w.crow...@gmail.com wrote: You propose that since zero day happens no matter what, we conveniently make a zero day site ourselves so that the script kiddies don't have to do it themselves. did you mean to respond only to me? Which do you fear

Re: [Development] Proposal: Change Qt's Security Policy to Full Disclosure

2012-10-20 Thread Charley Bay
Wow. I don't usually rubber-neck as I drive by car-crashes, but I must say, this has been one of the more fascinating email chains. Not because of content; but rather, because in my introverted I'm-so-lonely! world, observing humans-being-human has recently become fascinating to me. I had to

Re: [Development] Proposal: Change Qt's Security Policy to Full Disclosure

2012-10-20 Thread Knoll Lars
On Oct 20, 2012, at 5:18 AM, d3fault d3faultdot...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Knoll Lars lars.kn...@digia.com wrote: This is just wrong, and I'm getting tired of your ramblings on this mailing list. Just because you send something to the ML and people get tired of

[Development] Proposal: Change Qt's Security Policy to Full Disclosure

2012-10-19 Thread d3fault
I proposed it, therefore if nobody disagrees, I get consensus and the decision goes into effect. I'll quote myself in an earlier post to actually give this thread some substance: On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 3:40 PM, d3fault d3faultdot...@gmail.com wrote: tl;dr: Open Project Closed Security The

Re: [Development] Proposal: Change Qt's Security Policy to Full Disclosure

2012-10-19 Thread Alexis Menard
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:59 AM, d3fault d3faultdot...@gmail.com wrote: I proposed it, therefore if nobody disagrees, I get consensus and the decision goes into effect. I'll quote myself in an earlier post to actually give this thread some substance: Hi, First you should let more than a day

Re: [Development] Proposal: Change Qt's Security Policy to Full Disclosure

2012-10-19 Thread Giuseppe D'Angelo
On 19 October 2012 17:48, Alexis Menard ale...@webkit.org wrote: Hi, First you should let more than a day for people to answer. Secondly I disagree with your statement and using the same link (Debian) you sent let me quote something else : And to add a proper reference other than the FAQ,

Re: [Development] Proposal: Change Qt's Security Policy to Full Disclosure

2012-10-19 Thread d3fault
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Alexis Menard ale...@webkit.org wrote: First you should let more than a day for people to answer. Waited 11 days in the other thread... Secondly I disagree with your statement and using the same link (Debian) you sent let me quote something else : A: Once

Re: [Development] Proposal: Change Qt's Security Policy to Full Disclosure

2012-10-19 Thread d3fault
Mathematical Truth: It is better: To be vulnerable and know it (so you can shut down your machine or unplug dat ethernet cable). Than: To be vulnerable and not know it (especially when there's a growing number of others that do). d3fault ___

Re: [Development] Proposal: Change Qt's Security Policy to Full Disclosure

2012-10-19 Thread Knoll Lars
On Oct 19, 2012, at 4:59 PM, d3fault d3faultdot...@gmail.com wrote: I proposed it, therefore if nobody disagrees, I get consensus and the decision goes into effect. I'll quote myself in an earlier post to actually give this thread some substance: This is just wrong, and I'm getting tired of

Re: [Development] Proposal: Change Qt's Security Policy to Full Disclosure

2012-10-19 Thread d3fault
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Knoll Lars lars.kn...@digia.com wrote: This is just wrong, and I'm getting tired of your ramblings on this mailing list. Just because you send something to the ML and people get tired of answering you doesn't mean your proposal is accepted. I was writing