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Score by Collisions, Patch by Panic


TLDR; Score severity by collision count. Researchers ship patches not just reports. Companies redesign for a world where the exploit lands before the patch. No magic. No vendor pitch. Just the playbook. The last post went further than I expected. NYT’s Hard Fork picked it up. The Lobsters thread had sharp questions. A few people made a fair point. “The model is broken” is a complaint not a proposal. So here is the proposal.

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