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Something I don't understand is why these sorts of hacks are always "preannounced" in advance of some conference or another. Inevitably, legal action is taken
by CamperBob 17y ago
Something I don't understand is why these sorts of hacks are always "preannounced" in advance of some conference or another. Inevitably, legal action is taken to shut down the presentation and keep the details from becoming public.
If you're going to announce a hack, announce the hack. If you're not, don't. Why go through the same song-and-dance every time?
- eridius 17y agoIf you pre-announce and get shut down, then you get all of the media attention without actually having to prepare a talk. It's win-win!
- dryicerx 17y agoThis isn't a bragging announcement, more of a call to action/support by enthusiast community to help the project by providing computational power to build the rainbow tables. (Read the linked slides, that should have been the initial YC submission instead of this sensationalized neowin article https://har2009.org/program/attachments/119_GSM.A51.Cracking.Nohl.pdf https://har2009.org/program/attachments/119_GSM.A51.Cracking... ) My Sideproject++ gotta do something with all these EC2 nodes laying around.