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          "type": "reporter",
          "value": "digit50 (https://github.com/digit50)"
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          "type": "coordinator",
          "value": "Jelle Zijlstra (https://github.com/JelleZijlstra)"
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          "type": "remediation reviewer",
          "value": "Hugo van Kemenade (https://github.com/hugovk)"
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          "type": "remediation reviewer",
          "value": "Seth Larson (https://github.com/sethmlarson)"
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      "title": "imaplib STARTTLS serves plaintext bytes buffered before the handshake as if they came over TLS"
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