Batching errata & advisories in heaps degrades security.

[Julian H. Stacey]

Benjamin Kaduk wrote:

> As a member of the security team for two projects (not FreeBSD's, though),
> I can say that it is a lot of behind-the-scenes work to put out
> advisories,

Of course.

> and batching them reduces the unit cost of any given one.

If so, their issue, not ours.  Our concern is FreeBSD.


> the
> contents of the errata notices have been public for quite some time

URLs ? If info was complete early, delaying those announcement
degraded security of recipients. Batching also swamps recipients.

Julian
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