Full disclosure

:This article is about a policy of the security industry. For the journalism practice, see Full disclosure (journalism).

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Full disclosure in computer security means to disclose all the details of a security problem which are known. It is also a philosophy of security management completely opposed to the idea of security through obscurity, and that is what this article discusses.

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The issue of full disclosure is controversial, but not new: locksmiths were discussing full disclosure over a century ago.

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