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No they don't. They prevent everybody with ill intent who doesn't already know about it from finding out about it from the guys without ill intent. That's all.
by jstanley 9y ago
No they don't. They prevent everybody with ill intent who doesn't already know about it from finding out about it from the guys without ill intent. That's all.
- avh02 9y agowould you say it prevents the small fry from having a big impact? edit: I think the mirai botnet(s) had some sort of power struggle? avoiding propagating knowledge about it prevents it from being easily exploited by more actors.
- brazzledazzle 9y agoThe reality is that there's a group you're excluding from consideration and I don't think it's unreasonable to conclude that embargoes keeps every random "hacker" from taking advantage of it in a packaged form. Being vulnerable to the minority population that can and would take advantage of it vs. anyone that would is a valid consideration and shouldn't be dismissed so casually.