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Re: Security Theater: Most Fake Bombs Missed by Screeners
From: Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:48:49 +0200
* Valdis Kletnieks:
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:36:16 BST, Drsolly said:How is this different from testing an AV product by using simulated viruses?It's not. But would you buy a product that failed to catch eicar.com 70% of the time?
MIME? Alternate Data Streams? AFAIK, these are still very weak points. (But "70% of the time" is a meaningless comparison in this context.) _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Security Theater: Most Fake Bombs Missed by Screeners Paul Ferguson (Oct 18)
- Re: Security Theater: Most Fake Bombs Missed by Screeners Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 18)
- Re: Security Theater: Most Fake Bombs Missed by Screeners Drsolly (Oct 18)
- Re: Security Theater: Most Fake Bombs Missed by Screeners Drsolly (Oct 18)
- Re: Security Theater: Most Fake Bombs Missed by Screeners Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 18)
- Re: Security Theater: Most Fake Bombs Missed by Screeners Florian Weimer (Oct 18)
- Re: Security Theater: Most Fake Bombs Missed by Screeners Dragos Ruiu (Oct 18)
- Re: Security Theater: Most Fake Bombs Missed by Screeners Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 18)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Security Theater: Most Fake Bombs Missed by Screeners Paul Ferguson (Oct 18)
- Re: Security Theater: Most Fake Bombs Missed by Screeners Brian Loe (Oct 18)
- Re: Security Theater: Most Fake Bombs Missed by Screeners Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 18)
- Re: Security Theater: Most Fake Bombs Missed by Screeners Brian Loe (Oct 18)
- Re: Security Theater: Most Fake Bombs Missed by Screeners Blue Boar (Oct 18)
- Re: Security Theater: Most Fake Bombs Missed by Screeners Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Oct 18)
- Re: Security Theater: Most Fake Bombs Missed by Screeners Drsolly (Oct 18)
- Re: Security Theater: Most Fake Bombs Missed by Screeners Brian Loe (Oct 18)
- Re: Security Theater: Most Fake Bombs Missed by Screeners Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 18)