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+## ioquake3 Security
+We take security very seriously at ioquake3. We welcome any peer review of our 100% free software source code to ensure nobody's ioquake3 clients or servers are ever compromised or hacked.
+
+### Where should I report security issues?
+
+In order to give the community time to respond and upgrade we strongly urge you report all security issues privately.
+Please contact zachary@ioquake.org directly to provide details and repro steps and we will respond ASAP.