On Mar 25, 2012, at 10:43 PM, Jon Callas wrote:
>
> On Mar 25, 2012, at 1:22 PM, coderman wrote:
>
>> now they pay to side step crypto entirely:
>>
>> iOS up to $250,000
>> Chrome or IE up to $200,000
>> Firefox or Safari up to $150,000
>> Windows up to $120,000
>> MS Word up to $100,000
>> Flash or Java up to $100,000
>> Android up to $60,000
>> OSX up to $50,000
>>
>> via
>> http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/03/23/shopping-for-zero-days-an-price-list-for-hackers-secret-software-exploits/
>>
>> plenty of weak links between you and privacy...
>
> This is precisely the point I've made: the budget way to break crypto is to
> buy a zero-day. And if you're going to build a huge computer center, you'd be
> better off building fuzzers than key crackers.
Bingo. To quote myself, you don't go through strong security, you go around it.
--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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