full-disclosure - Re: What the f*** is going on?

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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:11:30 -0800
From: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@...edump.cx>
To: Pietro de Medici <piedemed@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: What the f*** is going on?

> I mean, if these are the security industry's geniuses, why, what would the
> writers of Stuxnet be?

...seriously?

> Disclosing how their epic story simply involved SQLi, well, what about the
> guys discovering 0days in native code?

Totally. I have long postulated that perl -e '{print "A"x1000}' is
considerably more l33t than <script>alert(1)</script> or ' OR '1' ==
'1.

I don't understand the point you are getting at. I think that the more
interesting aspect of this story are the egregious practices revealed
in that write-up (and elsewhere):

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2011/02/world-of-hbgary.html

/mz

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