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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. They make him sound like some sort of James Bond by eyal0 · · Score: 0, Troll

    From the article: "Was the massive patching effort justified, or was Kaminsky just an arrogant, media-hungry braggart?"

    Yes and yes.