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    1. Chris Palmer‏ @fugueish 28 May 2019
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      Chris Palmer Retweeted Nicole Perlroth

      Well, re this: https://twitter.com/nicoleperlroth/status/1133578307105054720?s=20 … Reverse engineering patches to develop exploits is 100% a real thing. It’s some people’s full-time job. I don’t know who you’re talking to, but that’s reality. Different equities would change the timeline, but not the root problem.

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      Nicole PerlrothVerified account @nicoleperlroth
      6. If NSA had turned the underlying 0day over to Microsoft 7+ years ago for patching, could hackers/nation states have reversed the patch and written an exploit for the underlying flaw and used it all the same? Maybe. Former TAOs have different takes than Dave on this.
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    2. Nicole Perlroth‏Verified account @nicoleperlroth 28 May 2019
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      Replying to @fugueish @daveaitel and

      @tavisopic.twitter.com/S0SmJjkEpO

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    3. Tavis Ormandy‏Verified account @taviso 28 May 2019
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      Replying to @nicoleperlroth @fugueish and

      Chris is right on this, finding an infoleak to make a vuln reliable is just part of exploit development. I don't always agree with Dave, but this is not a matter of opinion, he's just stating a fact.

      2 replies 0 retweets 18 likes
    4. Tal Be'ery‏ @TalBeerySec 29 May 2019
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      IMHO and without taking sides on the bigger discussion, it's less about the vuln itself, but more about the robustness ("NSA grade“) of the exploit: reliable, cross Windows versions, easy payload integration etc.

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    5. Tavis Ormandy‏Verified account @taviso 30 May 2019
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      Replying to @TalBeerySec @nicoleperlroth and

      Sure, but that's just software engineering. You can make a flappy bird clone in an evening, but it's not going to run on much other than your desktop until you do some testing and get some bug reports. Nothing exploit specific there, that's just how sw development works?

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    6. Tal Be'ery‏ @TalBeerySec 30 May 2019
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      Replying to @taviso @nicoleperlroth and

      Vulnerability research takes one (very capable) man. Software engineering? It takes a village. Not to mention the maturity of code tested in the wild on many platforms for years.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    7. Tavis Ormandy‏Verified account @taviso 30 May 2019
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      Replying to @TalBeerySec @nicoleperlroth and

      Yes, but my point is there is nothing magical about what the NSA did. I don't have to make my exploits reliable, because I just want the bugs fixed. I've seen metasploit devs take my code, test more configs, versions, fix bug reports from pentesters, etc and make it "NSA grade".

      1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
    8. Tavis Ormandy‏Verified account @taviso 30 May 2019
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      Replying to @taviso @TalBeerySec and

      I think you're arguing that the NSA did something special, that nobody outside of Government agencies could achieve, right? If that's not what you're arguing, that I'm lost 😛

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    9. Tal Be'ery‏ @TalBeerySec 30 May 2019
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      Replying to @taviso @nicoleperlroth and

      I agree. No magic. Just a lot of effort.

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    10. Kevin Beaumont‏Verified account @GossiTheDog 30 May 2019
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      Yeah it’s the thing for me that got lost in the debate for me. The lost vuln isn’t really causing the issue, the quality of the exploit is - millions of dollars of testing and field use went into that.

      3 replies 0 retweets 10 likes
      Tavis Ormandy‏Verified account @taviso 30 May 2019
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      Replying to @GossiTheDog @TalBeerySec and

      It was solid engineering for sure. Although the craftsmanship was not quite as high as EXACTCHANGE, whoever wrote that masterpiece is the real genius (I'm kidding... they copied my code 😝)

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