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I feel a little uneasy about a quickly coded 'trap' being quickly auto-deployed to tens of millions of machines automatically in a code fix that's supposed to b
by cooldeal 15y ago
I feel a little uneasy about a quickly coded 'trap' being quickly auto-deployed to tens of millions of machines automatically in a code fix that's supposed to be about fixing security, only with the intention of making a cute statement in the cat & mouse game they're playing with the white/grey hats.
The claims of it backfiring in the other comments only make me more uneasy about all this. I hope they gave a good thought about a 'user first and cute tricks later' mentality. Don't put 200 million+ users into the crossfire. Or maybe all this is not a big deal at all.
- ootachi 15y agoGoogle's ego knows no bounds.
- chc 15y agoYou seem to be reading this as "Google knew about an exploit and could have fixed it, but instead chose to leave a cute message." To me, it sounds more like Google knew what kinds of exploits people were likely to try and put in code that would detect some attempts and give a cute error message. The fact that Vupen later succeeded with a similar exploit basically just proves Google hasn't solved the halting problem, not that they intentionally left an exploit in (unless you consider Abobe Flash itself to be an exploit).