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To what extent is this extortion? I mean, they have admitted to only selling to a government. That means they find and exploit vulnerabilities in software creat
by flipbrad 15y ago
To what extent is this extortion? I mean, they have admitted to only selling to a government. That means they find and exploit vulnerabilities in software created by a private corporation, disclose the existence of a vulnerability publicly, but don't allow the corporate body the means of fixing it. This news, if publicised, would harm Google's reputation and goodwill, perhaps non-negligibly, and cause users to switch products. Unless, of course, Google outbids a government. Pay up or suffer - would this be extortion?
- sswam 15y agoI don't believe this crappy little security firm has more resources than Google, even in the Security Research Dept. They can go find it themselves and fix it. Anyway, it's probably mostly a windows bug. If you line the right bytes up together in windows' RAM, it will void itself and yield 'root' or whatever wiener name they have for it. Who knows, maybe they Govt is trying to screw google, and told them to do a fake release. Their post doesn't make them sound like real pros.