Re: Transitive Trust: 40 million credit cards hack'd

[Adam Shostack <adam () homeport org>]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 01:06:01PM -0400, Marcus J. Ranum wrote:
| Behm, Jeffrey L. wrote:
| >You don't gotta outrun the bear, just
| >the guy next to you.
| 
| That's the strategy that's gotten us where we are today.
| 
| It works great assuming the bear count remains a constant and the
| bears don't suddenly all come equipped with overdrive. It also
| assumes that bears exercise reason in selecting their targets.
| Next-gen malware breaks all of those assumptions.

I like to say that that works only until bears get machine guns.

Adam
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