Reporting a vulnerability? Email [email protected] with the subject line SECURITY. You will get a human acknowledgement within 3 business days. Please do not open a public issue.

Scope

This policy covers software and services we operate:

The following are out of scope, because we do not control them:

What we ask of you

  1. Give us a reasonable window to fix the issue before disclosing it publicly. Our default is 90 days from your report, and we will usually be much faster.
  2. Use only accounts you own, or test accounts you created. Never access, modify, or retain another person's data.
  3. If you do encounter personal data belonging to someone else, stop immediately, do not save a copy, and tell us in your report.
  4. Do not degrade the service for other users. No load testing, no automated brute-forcing against production, no spam.
  5. Give us enough detail to reproduce: affected endpoint or screen, steps, and what an attacker gains.

Safe harbour

If you make a good-faith effort to follow this policy, we will not pursue or support legal action against you for your research, and we will treat your report as authorised access. If a third party brings action against you for activity that complied with this policy, we will make that compliance clear. Good faith is judged on your conduct, not the severity of what you find.

This safe-harbour commitment does not extend to accessing other people's personal data beyond the minimum needed to demonstrate a finding, to extortion, or to destroying data.

What you can expect from us

StageOur commitment
AcknowledgementWithin 3 business days
Initial assessmentWithin 10 business days: validity and severity
Progress updatesAt least every 14 days while the report is open
Fix for critical issuesTargeted within 30 days of confirmation
CreditNamed in our release notes if you want it; anonymous if you prefer

We do not currently operate a paid bug bounty. We would rather say so plainly than imply a reward that does not exist. Every valid report gets a written response and, with your consent, public credit.

Regulatory reporting

Where a vulnerability you report is being actively exploited, or an incident materially affects the security of EchoDrop, we notify the relevant authorities on the statutory timeline, including, for users in the European Union, reporting through the ENISA single reporting platform under the Cyber Resilience Act, and notifying affected users and supervisory authorities under the GDPR where a personal data breach is involved. Your report may form part of such a notification; we will not name you to a regulator without asking you first.

Machine-readable contact

This policy is referenced from our /.well-known/security.txt, published per RFC 9116.