The whining and moaning from some security analysts over Shadow Broker dumps is a mystery to me.
Apologies for the pie chart, but the blue area represents the widely vulnerable population pre-Shadow Brokers leak:
I’m sorry, you can’t really see the 0.01% or less, who weren’t vulnerable pre-Shadow Brokers leak. Try this enlargement:
Shadow Brokers, especially if they leak more current tools, are leveling the playing field for the average user/hacker.
Instead of 99.99% of users being in danger from people who buy/sell zero-day exploits, some governments and corporations, now it is closer to 100% of all users who are in danger.
Listen to them howl!
Was was not big deal, since people with power could hack the other 99.99% of us, certainly is now a really big deal.
Maybe we will see incentives for more secure software when everyone and I mean everyone is at equal risk.
Help Shadow Brokers level the security playing field.
A post on discovery policy for vulnerabilities promotes user equality.
Do you favor user equality or some other social regime?