Reply to post: Re: Sound and fury, signifying nothing

'First ever' SHA-1 hash collision calculated. All it took were five clever brains... and 6,610 years of processor time

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Re: Sound and fury, signifying nothing

"Maybe if you could spoof target coordinates in under 60 seconds using a smartphone you might have a problem, or if you'd be inclined to waste 100k+ on the equipment necessary to fiddle with the terms of somebody's 50k contract, but as it stands none of that is likely any time soon, which means the security is doing its job as designed."

Unless, of course, that 50k contract has knock-on effects that can propel the total into the millions, in which case you now have good RoI.

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