Philosophy
A finding isn't real until someone else can reproduce it.
Most of what gets called "research" is a screenshot of a crash and a confident paragraph. We hold ourselves to a harder line: a root cause, a minimal trigger, and the exact state the bug needs. If a stranger can't follow it, it isn't done.
Repro in five minutes
Every advisory ships with the smallest input that trips the bug and the shortest path to see it fail. We'd rather cut scope than hand a vendor a mystery. The test of a report is whether the engineer who has to fix it can stand the bug up on the first try.
Root cause, not symptom
A panic is a lead, not a conclusion. We chase the write back to the line that let it happen — the missing bound, the stale pointer, the check that guarded every other path and not this one — and we say plainly what the fix has to change.
Vendor first, always
We report privately and hold detail until a fix ships or the disclosure window closes. Nothing reaches this site before that. Coordinated disclosure isn't a courtesy we extend when convenient; it's the default the whole practice is built on.
What we won't publish
- A crash with no stack and no theory
- Anything still inside a vendor's disclosure window
- Findings we can't reproduce on demand
- Severity inflation dressed up as impact
If it wouldn't survive the vendor's own engineer reading it closely, it doesn't go out under our name.
Why the bar is this high
Reputation compounds. One inflated report and every future one gets read with a raised eyebrow. We would rather publish less and be believed completely than flood a feed and be skimmed. The work here is meant to be cited, patched against, and trusted — years after it shipped.