Yep, so apply the patch. Now what do you do about your millions of insecure clients running unpatched, out-dated OS/browsers? How do you solve that problem? Security folks don't want to talk about that because it's hard. The client-side is a much larger number of opportunities and much weaker link in the chain. Yes, you need to deal with both, but it's hard to find discussion on the latter, and a lot on the former.
Yes, the sun is still spinning on its axis, slowly burning its way through our atmosphere and hastening the inevitable demise of our species, whether or not you patch the ASP.NET CBC padding oracle. But for today, can we just focus on the padding oracle?
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Yep, so apply the patch. Now what do you do about your millions of insecure clients running unpatched, out-dated OS/browsers? How do you solve that problem? Security folks don't want to talk about that because it's hard. The client-side is a much larger number of opportunities and much weaker link in the chain. Yes, you need to deal with both, but it's hard to find discussion on the latter, and a lot on the former.
Yes, the sun is still spinning on its axis, slowly burning its way through our atmosphere and hastening the inevitable demise of our species, whether or not you patch the ASP.NET CBC padding oracle. But for today, can we just focus on the padding oracle?