Comment by dylan604
4 years ago
Does it have anything to do with the speed of development->deployment? If something that is going to be standardized is rushed, then these kind of easily-ish found flaws will continually haunt us. If things slowed down and allowed a serious amount of pentesting before standarization, then maybe we can avoid these herpes like flaws where they sit dormant and then flare up, but can never be eliminated once discovered.
Doubtful.
> several of the newly discovered design flaws have been part of Wi-Fi since its release in 1997!
And spectre is also based on a decades old documented flaw.
It's just not very practical to predict every feasible attack until a lot of people have real systems to explore.