>Although Cloudflare recently suffered from a widely-reported security incident, their response was impressively fast and transparent.
Really....seemed like they massively downplayed to me.
Really....seemed like they massively downplayed to me.
What leads you to believe that CloudFlare was impressively fast and transparent in this case? Especially since statements from Project Zero seem to imply that they were anything but.
(Note: All of the above is based on my external observations, as I was not yet an employee nor did I have any internal access at the time.)
The researchers massively overplayed the impact and the public massively misunderstood the effect.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/google-en...
Even someone as popular as Steve Yegge that probably could have told Google to GFY basically switched to PR speak the next day:
> Yegge wrote a mea culpa the next day and praised Google PR for not coming down on him. He took the post offline but let others keep their copies. And then he stopped ranting and presumably went back to work. If only some politicians could learn from his example. When you make a mistake, the more you talk about it, the longer the story lives.
I don't think anything he says has been a PR disaster and I think his POV is genuinely correct (that could be just because he is persuasive :P).
I think the truth is people want the white lie of PR speak because when you stop and try to be honest, many people will try to use it against you later so its safer to use the PR filter that is a white lie than be 100% transparent.