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lazyasciiartyesterday at 11:29 PM1 replyview on HN

Ah, I guess that would advertise that users of the old version are vulnerable. I was imagining some altruistic contributor trying to sneak in a bug fix past the maintainer.


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stavrosyesterday at 11:35 PM

Yep, this is for maintainers releasing fixes to secretly-reported 0days without tipping off attackers who are looking to exploit a (sometimes very large) install base.