On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Robert Davies wrote:
<snip the paper intro>
Yep, we read that through at work yesterday for interest. Certainly seems
from what some of the Windows people tell me that it's as serious as it
claims to be. Still it'll take a new generation of script kiddies with
half a brain to figure out smooth exploits...I give it a while.
> http://security.tombom.co.uk/shatter.html
> http://security.tombom.co.uk/response.txt
>
> Might be relevant to anyone having to make a case for the suits
Indeed. Though the interesting point is the Microsoft will benefit from
this - their case against releasing the Windows source code will receive a
sudden boost. Is it somewhat strange that they mentioned a possible issue
which will later help their case hugely when people come crying? hell no.
Jon.
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