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I'm curious what would you consider to count as an acceptable "reaction" from the HN community? At any rate I'm unlikely to provide one. Personally I probably
by rrdharan 8y ago
I'm curious what would you consider to count as an acceptable "reaction" from the HN community?
At any rate I'm unlikely to provide one. Personally I probably won't care until a Snowden-like disclosure that demonstrates exploitation of the ME in a scenario that directly affects me. i.e. I wouldn't be surprised that nation states are exploiting this in targeted fashion, but nation states already have all kinds of ways to get my data in ways that I'm unlikely to be available to defend myself against if I'm targeted.
I'd be more interested in hearing about how ME vulnerabilities are being used in US State-level dragnet surveillance or perhaps to subtly manipulate the population by changing their Google/Twitter/Facebook results or something of that nature. If you find any evidence of that, let me know.
- nine_k 8y agoImagine: "We, the U-Boot Command, don't care about fears and rumors until an exploit of the Enigma encryption technology is actually demonstrated." A good exploit is kept as invisible as possible, and when it is publicized, it may already be game over. A Trojan usually takes a lot of measure to stay undetected. Much of the recent crop of router-targeted exploits did not manifest their presence to the users in any way. Even with Snowden revelations, what has been shown was not just illicit mass data collection, but also huge reams of data already illicitly collected.