Puzzle of the Day

You discover a security flaw in the operating system on your company's computer.  The flaw enables any user to read 
any other user's files, regardless of their protection. You have several choices: you can keep quiet and hope no-one 
else discovers the flaw, or tell the company, or tell the system vendor, or announce it on the Internet.

1.	Suppose an exploitation of  t he vulnerability could be prevented by proper system configuration. Which of the 
above courses of action would you take, and why?

2.	If an exploitation of the vulnerability could be detected (but not prevented) by system administrators, how would 
this change your answer to question 1?

3.	Now suppose no exploitation of the vulnerability can be detected or prevented. Would this change your answer, 
and if so, how?