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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.josipfranjkovic.com/blog/race-conditions-on-web">https://www.josipfranjkovic.com/blog/race-conditions-on-web</a></p>
<p>Everyone read that post because it's some good shit. Unrelated to
the rest of this post, but still great.<br>
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<p>Ok, now that you are done: Lately, like all of you I have been
playing Overwatch. Usually I play with people in infosec because
that's more fun for some reason, or I'm tribal, or whatever. (My
ID is: DaveAitel#1794 if you want to play).</p>
<p>Anyways, last night, while being one of two Lucio's guarding a
RoadHog as we romped whatever 12 year olds happened to still be up
that late (10 is late for me), I was thinking about how everyone
discounts the support classes, but you cannot win against a team
that has them. If you've read <a
href="https://www.amazon.com/Playing-Edge-American-Intelligence-Terror/dp/1594206562/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1468338275&sr=8-1&keywords=michael+hayden">Michael
Hayden's book</a>, which is good, so you should, then you know
that a big part of his tenure was putting together support teams
from NSA who went out into the field - into literal war zones -
and occasionally who took casualties. <br>
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<p>I'm pointing this out mostly because when you talk to policy
people or watch Zero Day the Movie (FFS everything about this
movie bothers me and you equally) you will hear them go on and on
about how this technology could "Get into the wrong hands". And
yes, STUXNET is out! We've all had copies for YEARS. How's that
Armageddon working out for everyone? HAS THERE EVEN BEEN A COPY OF
IT MODIFIED FOR MALICIOUS USE? People always forget we used to
live in an Internet full of worms. Every day a new worm. Worms
were BORING back in the day because there were so many of them we
had to give them the cute names we've now reserved for vanity
bugs, like HEARTBLEED and BATTLETOADS. <br>
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<p>Literally, our only data point is that cyber "weapons" are safer
than aspirin. Something to keep in mind when everyone is calling
for massive regulation or overreaction to every new Wired article.<br>
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<p>-dave</p>
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