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From: dave aitel <dave () immunityinc com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 12:23:34 -0400
https://www.josipfranjkovic.com/blog/race-conditions-on-web Everyone read that post because it's some good shit. Unrelated to the rest of this post, but still great. Ok, now that you are done: Lately, like all of you I have been playing Overwatch. Usually I play with people in infosec because that's more fun for some reason, or I'm tribal, or whatever. (My ID is: DaveAitel#1794 if you want to play). Anyways, last night, while being one of two Lucio's guarding a RoadHog as we romped whatever 12 year olds happened to still be up that late (10 is late for me), I was thinking about how everyone discounts the support classes, but you cannot win against a team that has them. If you've read Michael Hayden's book <https://www.amazon.com/Playing-Edge-American-Intelligence-Terror/dp/1594206562/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1468338275&sr=8-1&keywords=michael+hayden>, which is good, so you should, then you know that a big part of his tenure was putting together support teams from NSA who went out into the field - into literal war zones - and occasionally who took casualties. I'm pointing this out mostly because when you talk to policy people or watch Zero Day the Movie (FFS everything about this movie bothers me and you equally) you will hear them go on and on about how this technology could "Get into the wrong hands". And yes, STUXNET is out! We've all had copies for YEARS. How's that Armageddon working out for everyone? HAS THERE EVEN BEEN A COPY OF IT MODIFIED FOR MALICIOUS USE? People always forget we used to live in an Internet full of worms. Every day a new worm. Worms were BORING back in the day because there were so many of them we had to give them the cute names we've now reserved for vanity bugs, like HEARTBLEED and BATTLETOADS. Literally, our only data point is that cyber "weapons" are safer than aspirin. Something to keep in mind when everyone is calling for massive regulation or overreaction to every new Wired article. -dave
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