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If one spends $1B on Malware, how does that money get used? Seems like a lot of dev time...
by runnr_az 3y ago
If one spends $1B on Malware, how does that money get used? Seems like a lot of dev time...
- neverartful 3y agoIf they told you, you would also have a fatal accident.
- dotancohen 3y agoProbably to acquire the equipment that the code needs to run on.
- shmatt 3y agoAn Israeli 8200 engineer makes $350/month for 24/7 availability. Must be the Americans making all the money
- mardifoufs 3y agoHuh? Salaries are that low in Israel? That's cheap even for some African countries lol
- oh_sigh 3y agoIt's not a salary - the "8200" is Unit 8200 - part of the intelligence corps of the IDF. So, it the pay for soldiers, and soldiers in the IDF don't get a salary, but they do get "pocket money".
- sillysaurusx 3y agoIt seems impossible to believe that the most sophisticated hackers on the planet are getting paid pocket money.
- kylebenzle 3y agoMany are delusional and believe they are doing, "gods work." You couldn't pay me enough money to murder innocent children and civilians but many IDf do it for extremely low pay.
- sillysaurusx 3y agoSure, but killing people doesn’t require a lot of skill. Hacking does. I’ve seen firsthand that security engineers tend to be paid less than mainstream dev roles, but pocket money for the best talent in the world seems unlikely. The IDF needs them more than they need the IDF. Even with religious beliefs in play, wouldn’t market forces still have an effect?
- Wytwwww 3y ago> than mainstream dev roles, but pocket money for the best talent in the world seems unlikely Well, this of course only applies to the conscripts who are serving their mandatory (almost) 3 years in the IDF. It's not like you can leave and if you're planning to build your career in this field it obviously preferable than serving in combat or logistics units. I would assume they are more like interns/apprentices though (how useful can most 18-20 year olds be anyway?) and most real work is done by people who are actually being paid a salary.
- The_Colonel 3y agoI'm not a fan of the extreme Israeli right wing politics, but then it's quite easy to sympathize with this particular effort of trying to prevent/slow down Iran from acquiring nukes.
- oh_sigh 3y ago
- MeImCounting 3y agoDeveloping this type of malware is a lot more complicated than developing some web service or database. For instance the attack path isnt immediately clear and there needs to be a period of developing proof of concept exploits that are then tested in a variety of environments, there needs to be persistence techniques developed, there needs to be a C2 system, there needs to be a methods to avoid detection. Stuxnet was probably a collection of many 0days that were used in conjunction. Each 0day probably takes months of "dev time" at minimum to develop.
- deadbabe 3y agoI wonder if they used an agile workflow? How long were their sprints? Did they use Jira?