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Given that the advisory advises you update rather than stop using them, hopefully a year and a half to actually implement some sort of actual encryption. And h
by gwd 7y ago
Given that the advisory advises you update rather than stop using them, hopefully a year and a half to actually implement some sort of actual encryption. And hopefully the reporters were paid for "discussing technical details", like, how to actually use an encryption library.
- retSava 7y agoWell, posting over HTTPS (with the worst certificates removed) instead of HTTP, perhaps with certificate pinning, isn't that hard and goes a long way.
- tialaramex 7y agoThis "XOR encryption" is vulnerable to an eavesdropper with almost no technical capability. Even just HTTPS with no checks whatsoever (think 1990s Perl scripts or Python Requests with all the checking explicitly switched off) is protected against eavesdroppers, so that would require an active attacker (or a large quantum computer) to defeat, far more sophisticated than this trivial nonsense.
- retSava 7y agoYeah exactly, that's my point - going from "oh shit" to "I feel fairly comfortable" in this case shouldn't take 1.5 years.