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zaroth on April 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: New South Wales Attacks Researchers Who Found Inte...

I'm OK with something like, 'the people who targeted the site had an agenda to find a hole, they found one, and they were happy to find it. I'm happy to hear about it from them via responsible disclosure and to have fixed it promptly. That would be close enough to ideal for me, and it seems like that's pretty much what happened.

If they denied the hole, or tried to cover it up, or did anything other than fix it immediately upon learning about it, really, that's the most we can hope for.

Did they slander the researchers?

deciplex on April 7, 2015 [–]

> Brightwell said fears over the system’s integrity were being fanned by “well-funded, well-managed anti-internet voting lobby groups”.

I think this is a bad attitude, but I would agree that it could be (and too often is) a lot worse.

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