What you should have done is report this problem to ZOS. And include with your report a deadline for when you'll disclose this problem publicly.
Yes, public disclosure is sometimes necessary. Sometimes you do need to force someone's hand or give someone more incentive to prioritize a problem. But you do that through responsible disclosure. Give ZOS the heads-up, give them a reasonable amount of time to either fix or find ways to mitigate the problem, and by the end of that time, you can then go public.
And by reasonable, I mean something on the order of months, esp. for something like this that would take a substantial amount of rearchitecting to fully address. Google, for example, will typically give another party 60 days to fix something before they go public with a vulnerability. (As someone who has worked in software security and who has a rough inkling of the kind of work it would probably take to fully address a problem like this, 60 days frankly seems way too short.)
Timing this on a holiday weekend right before a major release is, at best, irresponsible, and at worst, malicious.
Publius_Scipio wrote: »And now the FIERY conclusion
(Rated R. Make sure Dignified Mouse and Kodi get Jules' permission to enter)
*Scene slowly opens back up*
*Still in the alleyway*
*A mortally wounded Zazebra lays on the damp ground, his back up against the wall of the dead end*
*Scipio standing above him, sword in hand, staring at Zazebra*
*Zazebra with the sword Scipio had tossed to him sticking out of his abdomen. His breathing heavy and labored. His lips coated and dripping with thick ruby red blood. Bouts of coughing where blood spurts and bubbles from his mouth*
Zazebra: So this is fate... My fate... *coughs and blood spurts out*.... Beaten by a true soldier of the COVENANT.....
Scipio: You chose your fate. You chose subversion. You were defeated when you succumbed to the insatiable lust you had for ultimate power.
*Zazebra tries to laugh but begins coughing strongly and more blood spurts out of his mouth*
*Zazebra with heavy and labored breathing regains some breath*
Zazebra: Always about your damn honor.... Always about your code... Am I right Scipio?....
Scipio: I live by the Code of the COVENANT. I do not agree with what the Ebonheart Pact and Aldmeri Dominion seek to achieve. But I can respect Pact and Dominion soldiers who believe in what they fight for and hold themselves to a code of honor.
Zazebra: Ha! Codes of honor.....
Scipio: Why Zazbera? Why did you allow yourself to fall to these desires? What about your men, those that followed you without question? What about Rylana *Zazebra in a louder and defiant tone interrupts Scipio before he can finish speaking*
Zazebra: Rylana is a fool! He is weak! *coughs and blood spurts out* Rylana doesn't know what true power is! He could never win the war! I did what was necessary to guarantee victory!!!
Scipio: And yet here you are. In an empty dirty alleyway defeated and breathing your last breaths.
Zazebra: Yes here I am taking my last breaths. Here because YOUR CODE won't allow you to finish the job! You can't take the life of an opponent you deem has already been beaten...*coughing*
Zazebra: You are weak Scipio. You could never sit on the Ruby Throne and rule.....
Scipio: I didn't join the war for the selfish reason of wearing a tin suit and ruling as emperor. Ruling as emperor over lands that are doomed to remain scarred for an era.
*Zazebra smirks*
Zazebra: You are weak. It will be known that the great Scipio was not able to finish the mighty Zazebra when he had the chance.
Scipio: I and the COVENANT fought you and your army many times over many years. And here after all that has transpired, all the loss and blood shed.... I don't feel hate for you.... I pity you.
*Scipio sheathes his sword, turns around and begins walking towards the alleyway street entrance*
Zazebra: Don't you turn your back to me boy!!! *strong coughing with more blood from the mouth* Don't you walk away from me! I am the mighty Zazebra!
*Scipio ignores Zazebra and keeps walking*
Zazebra: F[snip] the COVENANT!!!! F[snip] FENGRUSH!!!!!
*Scipio stops walking*
*Scipio unsheathes his sword!*
*He doesn't turn around, only turns his head and eyes over his shoulder back at Zazebra*
*Zazebra smirking and begins laughing with bouts of deep coughs and gasps for air*
*Scipio sheathes his sword and continues walking down the alleyway to the street*
Zazebra: F[snip] that filthy Imperial *** you call a mother!!!
*Scipio freezes dead in his tracks right at the alleyway entrance*
*Scipio this time does not turn his head around. He continues standing still and staring ahead towards the street*
*Zazebra begins yelling in a angry and defiant tone*
Zazebra: Your father found your mother in a goblin camp! He was too drunk to have known the difference when he created you!!
Zazebra: Ah yes! And what about LITTLE SISTER!!! Yes, Scipio's beautiful sister. The sister who grew up to be so beautiful and sophisticated. The woman who has attention of all the male suitors in Wayrest! Hair of the most lustrous dark brown! Smells like fresh cut Spring roses.... Yes, Scipio's little sister!!!!
Zazebra: You can leave me here to die.... But i promise you I will return as a LICH and I will oooo so enjoy ravaging little sister!!!
Zazebra: You will carry with you until your last day the regret that your CODE OF THE COVENANT made you weak!!! The CODE which won't allow you to finish me off now because it tells you that you cannot strike down an already beaten opponent with YOUR BLADE!!!
*Scipio turns around and stares at Zazebra with a straight face*
*Scipio points to a sign above a door in the alleyway*
*Zazebra looks up and reads the sign*
Telel's Fine Khajiit Oil Lamps
*It strikes Zazebra!*
*Zazebra looks around the alleyway and realizes that the puddles, the damp ground.... DAMP WITH OIL FROM DISCARDED LAMPS!!!!!* (Khajiits aren't so great with keeping trash in order)
*Scipio's right hand goes into his pocket and he pulls out THE METAL SPOON USED TO CONSUME GREEK YOGURT!!!!!!!!*
*Scipio stares at Zazebra*
*Scipio strikes the metal spoon against the corner of the building causing a spark IGNITING THE OIL SOAKED GROUND!!!!!!!*
*Zazebra's eyes grow very wide for the last time!!!*
*Zazebra watches as the flames travel down the alleyway towards him!!!!*
Zazebra: NOOOOOOOOOO!!!
*Zazebra is engulfed by the flames!!!!*
Zazebra: ARGGGGHHHH!!! ARGGGGGGHHHH!!!!!! ARGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!! ARRRRGGGGGGHhhhhhhhhhhh........
*After a handful of seconds the screams stop*
*Scipio stares down the fiery alleyway*
*Only thing that can be heard are the flames burning*
*Scipio places the spoon back in his pocket, turns around and walks away*
-Fin-
I feel like the movie should have ended with you eating yogurt while walking away.Publius_Scipio wrote: »*Scipio places the spoon back in his pocket, turns around and walks away*