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First Heartbleed, then Badlock and now ImageTragick. Are bugs getting their own domains now?



It's almost like we need a site that indexes them.



Give it some GitHub pages love with a custom domain and re-submit to HN!


I looked at doing that first, but I couldn't figure out how folks could submit PRs against the markdown used to generate the site. I might just be a newb but I can't find a direct way to do it. Suggestions?


I thought the same thing. You can't sensationalize hacking in the news though without a catchy name. I see them as eventual NerdCore band names. Don't forget Shellshock.


The sad thing is, I would probably buy a Heartbleed CD


Not just their own domains, but in this case its own logo and Twitter account. Seems really bizarre to me, I don't get it.


You really don't get why the web is better off if serious bugs are given memorable, human parse-able branding that helps facilitate press coverage and raise awareness among stakeholders, rather than hiding flaws behind opaque identifiers like CVE-117293 that only a handful of people will know enough about to look into?


At this rate it seems to be leading towards a new comedy subgenre, so I'm happy with it.


Whatever helps awareness. May be it even gives a hint to people outside of tech about how bad things in security really are.


I hate this "branding of security issues" trend, I don't think it adds anything at all to the security process; but there you are.




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