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“Backdoor” means something deliberately and specifically added to enable the vulnerability. I.e., something can't really be both a backdoor and an exploit.
by cwillu 3y ago
“Backdoor” means something deliberately and specifically added to enable the vulnerability. I.e., something can't really be both a backdoor and an exploit.
- hn_go_brrrrr 3y agoReally? I think of a backdoor as a deliberate vulnerability, and the exploit as the attack (or attack code) that makes use of any kind of vulnerability. Let's say the NSA adds a backdoor. If someone else finds it, isn't that an exploit?
- wrboyce 3y agoVery similarly to yourself, but I would say backdoor and vulnerability are mutually exclusive (kinda? I guess a backdoor is a deliberate vulnerability but I think you know what I mean) yet both can be exploited (the exploit being the client side code, if you will).
- cwillu 3y agoIrregular verb joke incoming: I log in. You backdoor. They exploit.