Re: Security & Obscurity: First-time attacks and lawyer jokes

[Georgi Guninski <guninski () guninski com>]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:24:29PM -0400, Peter Swire wrote:
> ......  In talking
> with people who write software, however, I was repeatedly struck by
> their observation that it takes considerable hard work and expertise to
> find new vulnerabilities....................


darling, 

you are missing the point.

i can't sing, but this does not make singing a hard (NP) problem.

what do you expect, the developers to say: "we are so fuckingly lame, so any
nonstandard kid from a third world country can fuck us hard"?.

for the sake of the argument, let's assume there are as low as 10^6 bugs in m$
warez. to take over the world (and in particular any target thereof) a kid
needs as low as 10^2 or even 10 or even 1 exploits. 
any "real world" ('tm' of god) analogies?

-- 
It's better to be a pirate than join the navy. -- steve jobs



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