non-disclosure of infrastructure problem a management issue?

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Mon Aug 25 03:00:53 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 21:38 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> there's a lot of things to deal with and informing clients -
> especially when the full extent is unknown is not a terribly
> attractive prospect and definitely lower on the priority scale
> than auditing the problem and obviously fixing the problem.

I think most of us were more peeved about not getting a *clear* warning,
promptly, and wanting to know whether it really was a safety issue (do
not download) or just broken servers (downloads may fail).  The how and
what actually happened could have come out later on.

If it turned out that *because* of a lack of good warning, when a good
warning could have been given out, that boxes got compromised all over
the planet, you'd find users really pissed off and leaving in droves,
and Red Hat and Fedora with a shattered reputation.

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