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But this is the point of security research, to find vulnerabilities so they can be fixed.
by kzzzznot 7y ago
But this is the point of security research, to find vulnerabilities so they can be fixed.
- roca 7y agoIn practice the point of most security research is: get the paper published and give the talk, or sell the zero-days, or use them yourself, and then move on to the next thing. The actual non-sexy defensive work of cleaning up bugs and implementing countermeasures, i.e. the real work on improving security instead of making it worse, is mostly done by rank-and-file software and hardware developers whose names are never known.
- eeZah7Ux 7y ago> the real work on improving security ... is mostly done by ... developers whose names are never known And it's a very thankless job.