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"pwned in 60 seconds" is a hugely misleading statement. Every time there's a hacking competition you see "Chrome, Firefox, IE fall in seconds" - ignoring the we
by staticassertion 10y ago
"pwned in 60 seconds" is a hugely misleading statement. Every time there's a hacking competition you see "Chrome, Firefox, IE fall in seconds" - ignoring the weeks or months that it takes to find the vulnerabilities and develop exploits for them.
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoIt's not misleading, the issue is that your actual phone could be actually compromised in 60 seconds time, not some giant period of guessing and trying or cracking a complicated crypto scheme. The research time isn't material to the severity of the threat at the time of attack.
- staticassertion 10y agoThe vast majority of exploits of that nature take less than 60 seconds. It is nothing at all interesting or special or rare that it took < 60 seconds. Just clickbait, like every year when pwn2own rolls around.