It's amazing watching Bloomberg doubling down on its bad hardware hacking story. Instead of addressing the bad reporting pointed out in the original story, it continues with the bad reporting in new stories.
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This is technical gibberish, telling techies nothing. Is it one MAC address or two? Or two IP addresses on one MAC address? Networking isn't so complex that you have to avoid sufficient details.pic.twitter.com/vQR78ANvdH
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Vagueness and confusion in such simple technical details is an indication the journalist or the source is fudging them.
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It's like UFO conspiracy theories -- lots of fuzzy photographs, but no clear one. Same with Bloomberg: details are so easy to obtain, like a packet captured from the network, or a picture of the Ethernet connector, that we have to ask why no such detail exists?
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Eh, it’s “just” analog fingerprinting a second PHY. I put that in quotes because it’s clever. It’d make a fun Black Hat talk. I don’t think metal clips have sufficiently superior thermal properties vs. plastic but I’ll leave that to
@securelyfitz. The@taviso impression was LOL1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
impression?
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The "we gave them precisely 24 hours" thing.
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I don't get it, I'm pro full-disclosure. It seems more like a
@dakami impression, hype the release early, no?
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You're trying to be snarky, but I was *literally* thinking this. I didn't tweet it because it felt like "speaking of you, me". Ten years ago, I tried to vouch for my own bug. I *also* said, look at my government sources, look at the companies that agree with me. 1/
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I didn't think I needed any independent hacker oversight, because who in our community did DNS more than me? Everyone thinks their own baby is the most beautiful baby that ever did baby. I wouldn't be an exception there. Still needed independent review. Paid for that. 2/
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Can I take a shot everytime you say DNS at least? 
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Oh, have you also stopped drinking?
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