Re: [fw-wiz] Transitive Trust: 40 million credit cards hack'd

From: Adam Shostack (adam_at_homeport.org)
Date: 06/20/05

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    To: "Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr@ranum.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:56:50 -0400

    On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 01:06:01PM -0400, Marcus J. Ranum wrote:
    | Behm, Jeffrey L. wrote:
    | >You don't gotta outrun the bear, just
    | >the guy next to you.
    |
    | That's the strategy that's gotten us where we are today.
    |
    | It works great assuming the bear count remains a constant and the
    | bears don't suddenly all come equipped with overdrive. It also
    | assumes that bears exercise reason in selecting their targets.
    | Next-gen malware breaks all of those assumptions.

    I like to say that that works only until bears get machine guns.

    Adam
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