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Comment by gustavus

When I read about these kind of things I am reminded of this James Mickens quote

"Unfortunately, large swaths of the security community are fixated on avant garde horrors such as the fact that, during solar eclipses, pacemakers can be remotely controlled with a garage door opener and a Pringles can. It’s definitely unfor- tunate that Pringles cans are the gateway to an obscure set of Sith-like powers that can be used against the 0.002% of the population that has both a pacemaker and bitter enemies in the electronics hobbyist community. However, if someone is motivated enough to kill you by focusing electromagnetic energy through a Pringles can, you probably did something to deserve that. I am not saying that I want you dead, but I am saying that you may have to die so that researchers who study per-photon HMACs for pacemaker transmitters can instead work on making it easier for people to generate good passwords."

I feel like the same thing applies when we are talking about these kind of attacks. I mean right now the latest version of express currently has a dependency on a library that has a known RCE. I mean listen 99% of us work in a company where if someone wanted to steal our information they'd pay the janitor $500 to grab it on his way out. Is this really a huge priority?

parent gustavus 3 years ago

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