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Re: [Cryptography] "Death Note" elimination for hashes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Outerbridge)
Tue Oct 22 11:26:18 2013
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From: Richard Outerbridge <outer@interlog.com>
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 02:10:21 -0400
To: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
Cc: "cryptography@metzdowd.com List" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>,
jamesd@echeque.com
Errors-To: cryptography-bounces+crypto.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@metzdowd.com
On 2013-10-22 (295), at 00:10:02, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote:
> 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?
It already comes built in. This feature is usually known as last year's
model, but also goes by the names uncool, cheaper to replace than fix,
old pics so grotty looking, and battery rot.
__outer
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