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by bonton89
811 days ago
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> Once Microsoft realized that the intruders had used a theoretically expired 2016 consumer signing key to forge tokens for an enterprise customer, it launched an "all-hands-on-deck" investigation that went through the night, June 26–27. The company arrived at 46 hypotheses for the intrusion, including "a theoretical quantum computing capability to break public-key cryptography." I feel like this is a twist on the denial stage of grief. Sure, our house is on fire...but maybe it is because a asteroid just struck the earth. |
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The criticism here doesn't seem warranted. At an early stage of investigation, it seems prudent to iterate all possibilities, including grey swan events. This then allows to them to scale the investigation and delegate to various experts to address each hypothesis.