Omo and Rowley say they informed Securam about both their safe-opening techniques in spring of last year, but have until now kept their existence secret because of legal threats from the company. “We will refer this matter to our counsel for trade libel if you choose the route of public announcement or disclosure,” a Securam representative wrote to the two researchers ahead of last year’s Defcon, where they first planned to present their research.
Only after obtaining pro bono legal representation from the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Coders’ Rights Project did the pair decide to follow through with their plan to speak about Securam’s vulnerabilities at Defcon.
If you think software devs are any better… The more complex our systems become, the more it becomes someone else’s problem. The shit I hear coming out of some of my younger colleagues is just embarrassing sometimes. And they just don’t care. They couldn’t be arsed doing a quick search for a solution, trying to understand things from the other side’s perspective, nothing.
And then they wonder if AI gonna replace them? If you ain’t using your brain, what are you there for?
I’ll give you that, but I blame the public schools for conditioning kids into not using their brains