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by stefan_ 2177 days ago
Maybe this should read "that obfuscating an exploit does little to prevent the bug from winding up in the hands of a talented full time security researcher".

Of course if he was this talented, surely he would routinely diff new kernel versions and realize the old bug had been reintroduced before having to rediscover it in a jailbreak?

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I'd make sure I had a solid foundational basis before calling anyone on the PZ team untalented ;)

He abused the jailbreak to cause a crash. A talented researcher would try that before diffing kernel binaries.

> talented full time security researcher

If a single security researcher can de-obfuscate it in under a day, then a nation state with huge funding can too. Maybe not in a day, but eventually.