Exploit broker Zerodium ups the ante with $500k to target Signal and WhatsApp

Re:Exploit broker Zerodium ups the ante with $500k to target... by confounded on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @11:38PM (#15087423)

Couldn't the same argument be made about a thriving market in ways to break into your house at night and kill you?

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Re:Exploit broker Zerodium ups the ante with $500k to target... by conanbatt on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @11:52PM (#15087468)

If your home has 250 mill people using it a month, probably.

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Re:Exploit broker Zerodium ups the ante with $500k to target... by QAPereo on Thursday August 24, 2017 @01:54AM (#15087892)

More like... 250m people use a given brand of lock.

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Re:Exploit broker Zerodium ups the ante with $500k to target... by akvadrako on Thursday August 24, 2017 @06:01AM (#15088830)

I wouldn't trust a lock that doesn't have a $500K bounty offered for exploits.

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Re:Exploit broker Zerodium ups the ante with $500k to target... by niij on Thursday August 24, 2017 @10:26AM (#15090347)

So what do you use at your house? Watching the lock pick village videos from defcon made me realize that there are no perfect locks.

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Re:Exploit broker Zerodium ups the ante with $500k to target... by akvadrako on Thursday August 24, 2017 @05:45PM (#15094318)

I use a cheap lock and don't expect it to hold up against any but the most lazy attacks. I don't trust it.

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