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Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 22:23:16 -0800
From: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@...cle.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: RE: Concerns about CVE coverage shrinking - direct
impact to researchers/companies
On 03/ 9/16 04:22 PM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote:
> On 06/03/16 19:46, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> On 03/ 4/16 04:07 PM, Tim wrote:
>>> * No moderation required. Let the public decide if they believe the
>>> researcher or vendor. If a moderator does bother to look over the
>>> content, they could deduplicate/link issues together and address any
>>> confusion, but beyond that, it isn't their job to decide what is a
>>> vulnerability and what isn't.
>>
>> If the site displays *any* user-submitted text, you need at least enough
>> moderation to filter out spammers & trolls.
>>
>
> I don't think you need that level of moderation if you implement basic
> measures against spammers like requiring the creation of an account with
> e-mail verification.
>
> Just look to all the public bugzillas out there that allow commenting
> (mozilla, webkit, redhat, gnome, etc). I don't think they have a problem
> with spam. But you have to create an account first to do any comment.
I'm one of the admins of the public bugzilla at bugs.freedesktop.org, and
I've had to deal with spam there, and I've seen reports of spams in other
public bugzillas for open source projects.
github requires account creation as well, and I'm sure we've all seen out
of control comment threads there that had to be locked down to stop abuse.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith@...cle.com
X.Org Security Response Team - xorg-security@...ts.x.org
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