full disclosure

Around this time of year, my boss sends an e-mail to me and every other reporter on The Post's Business staff.

The Federal Communications Commission has sanctioned Comcast for "secretly degrading peer-to-peer applications," as the agency put it today.

Disclosing security problems is a good idea, says Bill Thompson, except when it isn't In the last few weeks we've seen two very different approaches to the full disclosure of security flaws in large-scale ...

The VAR Guy "Dell began offering Ubuntu on selected consumer PCs about a year ago. The VAR Guy has one (and, full disclosure, he loves it).

But this is the year that Ubuntu was supposed to move from geek users to a broader set of consumers — thanks to the release of Ubuntu 8.04 in April 2008."

An anonymous reader writes "The age-old full disclosure debate has been raging again, this time in no other place than at the foundations of the open-source flagship GNU/Linux operating system: within the Linux ...

"The linux kernel group would be the last group of people I would expect to support obscuring helpful messages in an attempt to improve security."Linux in bed with obscurity for security?

What?

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