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Google's Project Zero is always taking others to task for security yet not a peep from them on this. Their front page today is focused on bugs in Safari, Linux and Windows. Perhaps they should focus on their own products.

Its complete hypocrisy to affect commitment and then slink away when it comes to your own products. That raises questions about conflict of interest and credibility.

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The Project Zero team is specifically supposed to find Zero Days in other products to make everyone more safe. Google has other security teams for finding bugs in their own products. This isn't Project Zero's fault, nor does it really have anything to do with them. Project Zero is one of the decent teams at google trying to do good by everyone; they can't find every single bug, and if they changed their mission to just focus on Google products we might not have found all sorts of big bugs (eg. heartbleed) for a lot longer. Probably best to leave them alone and let them get on with their business.

Because they didn't find the bug. Why would they report it?

They've reported plenty of Google/Chrome bugs in the past. Your claims of hypocrisy are very off base.

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