Re: Absolute Sownage (A concise history of recent Sony hacks)

[Sihan <sihanzheng () gmail com>]

On 11/06/2011 2:29 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
> > if you eliminate 95% of the holes, it may be
> > *effectively* secure, simply because it isn't worth the attacker's time to
> > fight for the other 5%
> wtf?
>
> if someone has working exploit, the probability of breaking is 100% no matter what the constant 95% is claimed to be.
>
> about fighting for 5%: malware like nimbda and code red appear counterexamples -
> i suppose they automatically fought for 100% and got what they could get (quite above your 5%).
I tend to think about it this way, everybody knows how to exploit the 
95% of holes, only 5% know how to exploit the last 5% of holes. 
Generally speaking, the last 5% is harder to exploit, or they only exist 
under very specific instances. Or else everyone will know how to exploit 
them

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