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This is just a fancy way of saying defenders have to defend every entrypoint vs attackers who only have to find a single point of weakness.
by alephnan 2y ago
This is just a fancy way of saying defenders have to defend every entrypoint vs attackers who only have to find a single point of weakness.
- hypeatei 2y agoAsymmetry of defense, if you will.
- jakeinspace 2y agoWell, as the aphorism goes, the best defense is a good offense. Of course Microsoft and Google have security projects which aim to disrupt organized hacking groups, but maybe they need to go further? Like using honey pots to back-feed zero-day exploits (maybe even ones that have been engineered into Google/Microsoft/et al.'s products) to attacker's machines? Go full black-hat (with some sort of plausible deniability) and ransomware the ransomwarers. As I type this, I realize it sounds a bit like some of the evil all-powerful corporations in sci-fi, although they usually also go to the lengths of assassinating their enemies.
- devjab 2y agoWouldn’t any form of digital offence mainly be a waste of resources? The reasoning behind this is that the attacker has nothing to lose. What would you ransomeware? Cheap hardware which likely isn’t even owned by the attacker?
- immibis 2y ago"Hacking back" has gotten hackers into jail in the past.
- dhosek 2y ago> assassinating their enemies Well, Google no longer has a mandate of “don’t be evil” and Microsoft never did…