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0 pointshorsawlarway8y ago0 comments

This is silly. Security is not so much probability theory as it is cost vs benefit.

The probability of one guy inserting a backdoor is high, but the payoff for compromising his platform is incredibly low.

The probability of compromising one of the big two - android/ios - may be low (keyword: may. It turns out large groups are also made up of lots of "one guy"s) but the payoff is huge.

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auslander8y ago· 1 in thread

> probability of compromising one of the big two - android/ios - may be low - payoff is huge.

Whats your point? My point is that it takes nation state to do that.

esrauch8y ago

It takes a nation-state to do it and nation-states have an interest in doing so. Copperhead maybe could be comprised in the short term by just any thug with a led pipe making threats but those thugs have much softer targets than that so why would they?

auslander8y ago

> the payoff for compromising his platform is incredibly low

True, but price of the compromise is low as well. Scratch that. All it takes is to hack this one guy, i can do that :)

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