full-disclosure - Re: Nominate Dan Kaminsky for Most Overhyped Bug Pwnie Award

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Message-ID: <6158bb410808051723r3cae2526s1d314f9cf39dc48e@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 20:23:32 -0400
From: Ureleet <ureleet@...il.com>
To: n3td3v <xploitable@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Nominate Dan Kaminsky for Most Overhyped Bug
	Pwnie Award

hey, how overhyped is the shit now that its in the while and proving
ur ass wrong bitch?

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:00 AM, n3td3v <xploitable@...il.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Sandy Vagina <bigsandyvagina@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>> n3td3v wrote:
>> > Please nominate Mr.DNS aka Dan Kaminsky for Most Overhyped Bug on the
>> > Pwnie Awards 2008.
>>
>> Perhaps if you bothered to read anywhere close to as much as you
>> write, you would have seen that Dino, one of the judges, specifically
>> disqualified this bug from the Pwnies for being too awesome:
>>
>> http://blog.trailofbits.com/2008/07/09/dan-kaminsky-disqualified-from-most-overhyped-bug-pwnie/
>>
>
> Hi Sandy Vagina,
>
> Looks like they did a U-turn after realising how over hyped the bug actually is.
>
> Nominees
>
> "
> Unspecified DNS cache poisoning vulnerability (CVE-2008-1447)
>
> Dan Kaminsky
>
> Dan Kaminsky is credited with discovering some unspecified
> vulnerabilities in DNS that allow for cache poisoning on a massive
> the-intarweb-tubes-will-burst-and-flood-your-basement scale. There has
> been massive media attention over this vulnerability and a large
> amount of backlash in the security community over the lack of details.
> When the full details of the vulnerability are revealed at BlackHat,
> the masses will decide whether the hype and secrecy were worth it.
> And, more importantly, the Pwnie Judges will vote on whether Dan gets
> the Pwnie for Most Overhyped Bug.
>
> "
>
> http://pwnie-awards.org/2008/awards.html#overhypedbug
>
> All the best,
>
> n3td3v
>
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