Comment by Cthulhu_

Comment by Cthulhu_ 10 months ago

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> Funnily enough this post now also gives you all the tooling to make an actual evil RJ45 dongle by reflashing one :D

Ironic! I'm convinced most security problems are caused by well-meaning people breaking down hard- and software and explaining how to "hack" things. I mean if that's unintentional than at best it was security by obscurity to begin with which should be exposed so people don't rely on it.

rickdeckard 10 months ago

If you think some curious spare-time white-hat hackers are the main cause of most security problems, you grossly underestimate the size and skillset of the black-hat hacking industry, and the unlimited profit-potential available in that field...

  • tjoff 10 months ago

    And here I thought the main cause of most security problems was stressed developers on rushed projects where noone cares about security.

lazide 10 months ago

“I'm convinced most security problems are caused by well-meaning people breaking down hard- and software and explaining how to "hack" things.”

Huh?