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The Backstory of the Kaminsky Bug

Posted by kdawson on from the no-good-deed-goes-unpunished dept.

Ant recommends a Wired piece on the background story of the Kaminsky DNS bug and its (temporary) resolution, decreasing the odds of a successful breach from 1 in 2^16 to 1 in 2^32. We've discussed this uber-hole a number of times. Wired follows the story arc from before Kaminsky's discovery of the bug to his public presentation of it in Las Vegas.

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  1. Re:Ant by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I bought the print Wired and read that same article last week. Ho Hum.

    Much more exciting was the comic about the robotic poker player and the description of the AI methods it uses to win.