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by doctorpangloss 9 days ago
you have 1.0 installed. you enable 7 day cooldowns. an exploit is discovered in 1.0, and 1.1 is immediately released to fix the exploit. do you sit on 1.0 for 7 days?
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it specifically addresses this in the "The escape hatch" section...
So, the threat actor now, after making the compromise, just needs to announce that the previous version has a 0-day, and folks need to install the latest version? I love the idea of a cool down, but it can still be thwarted. I would just hope folks that are trying to patch a 0-day take extra caution to vet the new version. I wouldn't be opposed to a --cooldown 0 doing a side by side diff. I may not know what's going on in the code, but a 0-day shouldn't be a ton of new code either.
Security updates bypass the cooldown.
But what channel decides it is a security update? How do you know? Someone has to notify whom exactly? And what if the adversary says their supply chain attack commit is a security update?

All of this cooldown stuff is so mind bogglingly stupid...