His words were posted on Microsoft's Security Response Center blog, and Betz added that the idea of companies keeping quiet about flaws until fixes are posted was a good one. As far as he's concerned, telling the world ahead of time only hurts users who could then find themselves the victims of malicious hacking or other problems. Part of this, he explains, is that it takes a company a while to build a patch that works properly, and that publicly pressuring other companies to make a quick fix isn't fair. For its part, Google kept quiet about the issue for 90 days, but would it have made much difference if it'd held off for a little while longer?