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true but,

if you've followed the entire story there was a very coordinated effort by a majority of affected system. Had the community swallowed it's ego a bit and maybe conjecture in a very closed system - like maybe face to face. If Halvar hadn't needed to feed his ego it would have given a bit more of a chance to get as much patched. As much as I applaud blogs, there are situations that a person should learn to keep the proverbial cake hole shut.
Follow the hypocratic oath do no harm. If you think that it's possible an exploit could be harmful - contact the company (duh statement). If it had been said there is a FIX ON THE WAY, then shut up and try doing something productive - posting conjectures that could very potentially speed up the exploit being implemented most of the time doesn't help - it just gives virus makers (script kiddies too) a brand new target - and there's a hell of a lot more of them then there are people working to fix the exploits in the first place.
Yes mistakes happen, but these weren't just honest mistakes, they were ego getting in the way of common sense. And just letting them off with mistakes are made then it will happen again. Nobody will say "Oh, there are serious consequences to my actions, I think I'll tell people about this exploit that does causes the user to try and shove they're nose in people's ears."
The fact is that the people that openly made conjectures (a good thing in general) about something that was said to have a fix on the way, just because they had to know what it is. Sounds childish to me "I want to know, I want to know, I want to know!!!!!"
Growing up includes using some common sense, which should have convinced them to act more responsibly.

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