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They should be reported to the authorities for attempting to introduce security vulnerabilities into software intentionally. This is not ok.
by LegitShady 6y ago
They should be reported to the authorities for attempting to introduce security vulnerabilities into software intentionally. This is not ok.
- farisjarrah 6y agoWhat these researchers did was clearly and obviously wrong, but is it actually illegal?
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- LegitShady 6y agoIt should be reported anyways. This might be only some small part of the malfeasance they're getting up to.
- chews 6y agoMaybe it was those very authorities who wanted them there. Lot's of things have gotten patched and the backdoors don't work as well as they used to... gotta get clever.
- ActorNightly 6y agoThe fact that both of the researchers seem to be of Chinese origin should definitely raise some questions. Not the first time things like this have been tried.
- jlduan 6y agothis is classic national origin discrimination. racists are coming out.
- ActorNightly 6y agoId have the same suspicion if they were Russian. Nothing to do with race, everything to do with national affiliation.
- jlduan 6y agoWhat you are proposing happened in WW2, it is called Japanese American internment.
- ActorNightly 6y agoAfaik, there werent really any efforts by Japanese in WW2 to infiltrate and undermine US. China and Russia, in modern times, on the other hand....
- jlduan 6y agotell that to ww2 veterans, and you forgot to add middle east to you hate list.
- jessaustin 6y agoDoes the name "Aditya Pakki" really seem remotely "Chinese" or "Russian"? You might be a racist if you can't identify an obviously South Asian name as such. Although, honestly, even racists should be able to figure out the surname.
- ActorNightly 6y agoI was talking about the names on the original paper.
- dang 6y agoPlease don't post nationalistic flamebait to HN and certainly not implicit slurs. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dylan604 6y agoWhat authorities whould that be? The Department of Justice? The same DoJ that is constantly pushing for backdoors to encryption? Good luck with that! The "researchers" just might receive junior agent badges instead.
- amir734jj 6y agoI'm a PhD student myself. What he did is not okay! We study computer science to do good not to harm.