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How much effort was it really? Yes, they worked on it over 2 years, but I guess it wasn't more effort than a few hours every other week (apart from engineering
by KeplerBoy 3y ago
How much effort was it really? Yes, they worked on it over 2 years, but I guess it wasn't more effort than a few hours every other week (apart from engineering the actual exploit). After all putting in a full time effort as an unpaid contributor would be suspicious in itself.
Assuming they work 40 hours a week and are doing this in a team (presumably every major player has such a team or is scrambling to get one now), one must expect many potentially infiltrated projects out there.
- NamTaf 3y ago“Apart from engineering” is doing some seriously heavy lifting here. Writing the actual code is likely just an afterthought by comparison. The engineering - identification of a target weakness, the design of the exploit chain, etc. - is overwhelmingly going to have been the lion’s share of the effort.