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for the first time, they could see a cunning mind at work on the other side. I wonder if "hackers" actually think such things. The DirecTV network itself is, o
by mynameishere 18y ago
for the first time, they could see a cunning mind at work on the other side.
I wonder if "hackers" actually think such things. The DirecTV network itself is, of course, a million times more magnificent and "cunning" than any of the pissy little exploits against it.
- tptacek 18y agoThey absolutely did think those things. They even had a name for "the cunning mind": "Dave". And, not to argue whether DirecTV is more magnificent than whatever, but the attacks on it were neither "pissy" nor "little". They were more advanced than most of what we see on general purpose architectures.
- mynameishere 18y agoThey were more advanced than most of... Point missed. Were they more advanced than a global satellite network? There is simply comparison whatsoever. Exploiting a system is never as significant as creating a system.
- tptacek 18y agoThat may well be true in DTV's case --- a point I acknowledged already --- but it's not true in security at large. Breaking an existing well-regarded block cipher, for instance, is far more significant than simply creating a new one.