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This assumes the direct mode of exploitation. The indirect mode (where an attacker inserts a vulnerability) does not necessarily have the 'short time span' issue. So not a complete solution by any means.

Also, there should a way to distinguish between security updates and normal updates for this. If there is, a cooldown is a useful idea in general for normal updates, since (presumably) the current version works and the new version may introduce bugs.

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> This assumes the direct mode of exploitation. The indirect mode (where an attacker inserts a vulnerability) does not necessarily have the 'short time span' issue. So not a complete solution by any means.

The short time span isn’t just because exploits get attention: it’s to allow the groups which do automated analysis time to respond. Significantly increasing the challenge level for an attacker to introduce a vulnerability is a meaningful improvement even if it doesn’t prevent that class of attack entirely.

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