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There's something hilarious and poetic to me about seeing exploits organized into nice, big-corporation-style object hierarchy.
by laretluval 10y ago
There's something hilarious and poetic to me about seeing exploits organized into nice, big-corporation-style object hierarchy.
- rbanffy 10y agoYou wrote this and I immediately imagined an AbstractSingletonExploitFactoryBean...
- DonHopkins 10y agoSince Conway's Law [1] states that "organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations", this code leak must reveal a lot of interesting clues about the NSA's internal communication structures! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
- techdragon 10y agoIt's worth remembering that part of their Operational security practices will be dedicated to avoiding this. Not saying they can defy Conway's law but I imagine the analysis would be less revealing than theory would predict.
- DonHopkins 10y agoThey seem to have forgotten about the part of operational security practices that are dedicated to avoiding having your top secret code stolen in the first place.