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Comment · 1 year ago
One step closer to container breakout? Gaining root access give you a bigger attack surface for kernel exploits.
Comment · 1 year ago
I cannot answer for all the program owners, but I imagine that there are other concerns than reproducibility
Comment · 1 year ago
The policies states it’s not allowed to use automated tools, not to submit report using automated tools alone. Human review does not really change that.
Comment · 1 year ago
«XBOW submitted nearly 1,060 vulnerabilities. All findings were fully automated, though our security team reviewed them pre-submission to comply with HackerOne’s policy on automated tools»

That seems a bit unethical. I’ve thought companies specifically deny usage of automated tools. A bit too late ey…?

Comment · 1 year ago
I looked through most of the charts, and I it seems like you cannot get the best of two worlds. Can you get good edge retention, ease of sharpening and toughness at the same time?

It would be nice with an example on how knife steel properties work. I assume there are balanced tradeoffs.

Comment · 1 year ago
I love term how it plays on the words and the negative association we have with anti-personell mines

If we could have a ban on anti-personell computers…

Comment · 1 year ago
I get a cloudflare puzzle when I try to visit this link :(
Comment · 1 year ago
Ed Martin seems like a SME when he himself has been influenced by foreign agencies and spoke their case.
Comment · 1 year ago
Link is paywalled. Not possible to read
Comment · 1 year ago
We do not know why you are in jail, but because you are in jail you must have done something bad. We cannot just let bad people roam freely
Comment · 1 year ago
We all are
Comment · 1 year ago
So, they are basically saying that bash is vulnerable to arbitrary command execution?
Comment · 1 year ago
I would hope so, but on

Tarlogics blog post, it is mentioned “modifying chips arbitrarily”, “infecting chips with malicious code”, “obtain confidential information stored on them”.

Even though they rephrased the backdoor wording, the remaining statements make me believe the undocumented functions can be used to gain code execution on the main cpu.

Comment · 1 year ago
It it possible to create firmware that is encrypted and cannot be read out. Espressif state there is no security issues, but I have a feeling that these debug commands may be used to read out the flash of a properly secured esp32 that otherwise would not be possible…
Comment · 1 year ago
There was someone that figured out how to detect if the output was piped or not to bash on the webserver, can consider the fact and chose to be malicious or not

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