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by updog
5631 days ago
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It's been called many things. Security people have self-esteem problems, so if they see something being praised, they start convulsing at the sight of this injustice and must immediately blog about it and argue on forums. As someone who has actually read the code, my opinion is that yes it was special, but not because it was brilliant. It took a lot of resources, and although there was clearly a relatively high degree of skill involved for at least parts of it (finding 0days), there were not really any new techniques. So, I personally find it impressive because of the sheer amount of work that went into it. I think it is more the principal of it that is noteworthy - if someone tried to make a movie plot about that a few years ago, we would have scoffed. The reason that it was obviously a nation-state is because the number of people that worked on it, the amount of time they spent on it, and what the group would stand to gain (nothing), would not have been funded by any other entity. I won't go so far as to say it would be impossible to do by someone else, but that is improbable and really would not make much sense at all. Combine that with various external clues, and it is really obvious. |
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