Archived This Computer Attack Is Amazing, Frightening, and Unlike Anything Else. Its Called Rowhammer. (slate.com)
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Archived This Computer Attack Is Amazing, Frightening, and Unlike Anything Else. Its Called Rowhammer. (slate.com)
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[–] Gerplunckamo 6 points -5 points 1 point (+1|-6) ago
These security researchers could have made billions of dollars, and most likely got away with it, had they not released info regarding these hacks.
For a group of geniuses, they are fucking stupid.
[–] glUniform4fv 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
Chosing academic reputation over money is an indicator for stupidity to you?
[–] aFrenchGuy ago
Exactly ! And since when "If i don't publish information about an exploit, it doesn't exist" ?
[–] Vespera 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Would you say the same thing about Snowden?
[–] Gerplunckamo 5 points -4 points 1 point (+1|-5) ago
Yes, actually, because that's precisely what he ended up doing. Its why he's hiding out in Russia, and has only released information that is damning to the west.
Whatever he was before he left the states, he is now an FSB asset, to be utilized by the Russian state department against American interests.
It doesn't excuse what our government did, but giving state secrets to the enemy, from the safety of the enemy's home is an entirely different matter altogether.
[–] rationalinquisition ago
Only if your sole motivation is money. You will find that researchers tend to value money less than others. If they didn't, they would use their intelligence to be lawyers.
[–] oooooo ago
What happens when someone values money over people, folks.