[Cryptography] "Death Note" elimination for hashes

[Eitan Adler]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:07 PM, James A. Donald <jamesd at echeque.com> wrote:
> On 2013-10-22 08:06, Jerry Leichter wrote:
>> The vast majority - hundreds of millions - of Android devices out
>> there run versions of Android with known, sometimes severe, security
>> bugs.  They can't, and won't, be upgraded.  Is your best response
>> "well, brick 'em all"?
>
> Because we cannot brick them all, they were made so that they could
> not easily be updated, or could not be updated at all.

Would the same implementers that refuse to provide updates actually go
along with a self-destruct feature?


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Eitan Adler