[derwiki]

I heard through the grapevine that YC affiliated companies were tipped off to this exploit/patch before it was made public (really; a YC affiliate asked me today about the vuln before it was disclosed). Could anyone comment on that?

[tptacek]

The existence of this vulnerability (without details) was disclosed publicly last week. So far as I know, nobody was told any details about the vulnerability itself; just that a patch was coming, and it was very important to apply it.

[jgeralnik]

Not necessarily anything to do with YC; the vulnerability was discovered and posted on twitter shortly after last week's vulnerability.