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What Flap Over Reporting Instagram Flaw to Facebook Teaches Us

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Sean Michael Kerner
Dec 19, 2015

In a perfect world, security researchers would be able to find bugs in software, report them to vendors, get paid for their efforts and everyone would be happy. While that’s precisely how security reporting works in some cases, the information security world is far from perfect as an incident this week with Facebook’s Instagram unit clearly illustrates.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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