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Completely agree. That novel cryptographic hash collision thing is mind boggling, all the rest is just run-of-the-mill.


To paraphrase Edison, anything worthwhile is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration. The novel md5 collision/windows update propagation is Flame's 1%. The rest is just what's made possible as a result.

It is a cogent reminder of the fragility of the Internet's security infrastructure.


Well, I thought the unreadable, unprocessable, undeleteable file named '.' was rather clever.


It was clever the first time someone did it, but it's old-hat by now


Who did it first?




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