Board Thread:Bug Reports/@comment-25565811-20170120120301/@comment-27219153-20170204043552

Campinator wrote: Sorry as a non-server person, this could seem like a rather obvious question, but why is there such secrecy in discussing bugs? If the matter truly is a problem, wouldn't any exploits be worked on? Again, hope this isn't bordering on the redundant.

Mojang does the same thing if there are major exploits. I know there was one in 1.11 that was fixed in 1.11.2 (or sooner?) and they kept it really secret. I still don't know what it is.

In my case, I threw a termite in my banner protected area and it destroyed terrain. I assumed (wrongly) that throwing it in someone else's bannered area would also damage terrain. However, I found out that you can only damage terrain in a bannered area that you own or are whitelisted on. If this was not the case, anything protected with a banner would be vulnerable to griefing, potentially causing massive amounts of damage. Also as Sam said, its crucial to keep exploits secret even after they have been fixed, because not everyone plays the latest version. I hope this gives you a good idea of what kind of damage an exploit of this proportion could cause.