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May 21, 2026

the 90 day disclosure policy is dead :: Himanshu Anand :: Threat Notes

TLDR The 90 day responsible disclosure window was built for a world where bug finders were rare and exploit development was slow. That world is gone. LLMs have compressed both timelines to near-zero. I have seen it first hand, and so has everyone else paying attention. This post lays out why the old model is broken, with real stories, and makes one ask to the industry: treat every critical security issue as P0 and patch it immediately.






Missing Intelligence: The Trump Administration, Iran and the US Intelligence Community | Royal United Services Institute

Despite intelligence dominance in the war with Iran, events suggest the US intelligence community is having little influence on White House decision-making.


Experts Confirm the Fast16 Malware Was Sabotaging Nuclear Weapons Tests, Likely in Iran

Fast16 didn't predate Stuxnet but was contemporaneous with it. It also wasn't aimed at altering nuclear weapons but was simply feeding false data to engineers about the nuclear detonation tests they were conducting, in order to trick them into believing the tests were failing.





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