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el'reg love to try and make out interesting exploit stories as "we're all going to die". Which is a shame because it is an interesting story.
by ErrantX 17y ago
el'reg love to try and make out interesting exploit stories as "we're all going to die".
Which is a shame because it is an interesting story.
- tptacek 17y agoDan Goodin is one of the good guys. No tech pub, Ars included, is staffed with people who can independently validate stories about crypto. Goodin at least tracks down multiple sources for his stories.
- ErrantX 17y agoTrue; but they do have a tendency to big up these vulnerabilities more than other sites (in this case only in the title, it seems, but still...)
- tptacek 17y agoWhen you've (a) got a bunch of UMich researchers telling you it's big, (b) got the OpenSSL team telling you it's important enough to merit an immediate fix, (c) got Karsten Nohl telling you it's big, and (d) it's in SSL, then you're going to run a story saying it's big. Look, it's not big. We probably all get that. But there's nothing negative you can really say about the Register for how they ran this story. I think they do a better job with security than almost any other tech pub.