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Re: [Cryptography] "Death Note" elimination for hashes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eitan Adler)
Tue Oct 22 01:53:55 2013
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From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 00:10:02 -0400
To: jamesd@echeque.com
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On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:07 PM, James A. Donald <jamesd@echeque.com> wrote:
> On 2013-10-22 08:06, Jerry Leichter wrote:
>> The vast majority - hundreds of millions - of Android devices out
>> there run versions of Android with known, sometimes severe, security
>> bugs. They can't, and won't, be upgraded. Is your best response
>> "well, brick 'em all"?
>
> Because we cannot brick them all, they were made so that they could
> not easily be updated, or could not be updated at all.
Would the same implementers that refuse to provide updates actually go
along with a self-destruct feature?
--
Eitan Adler
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