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Here's the original source, it's not linked directly in the article: https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/reverse-engine...

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Changed to that from https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/08/11/warning-a.... Thanks!

In fact, your reference is linked in the second sentence of the article.

Thanks, this should really be the post. I didn’t find the Forbes article did anything but excessively quote the source material.

People really need to adjust to Forbes being nothing more than a content mill nowadays. They'll publish almost anything.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/21/business/media/jeffrey-ep...

I usually read Starts With A Bang [1] and GrrlScientist [2] on Forbes. The former writes well grounded articles on particle physics and cosmology while the latter presents good summaries of recent findings in biology.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/

The page with the most technical content is https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/breaking-bad-f... with a title of "Breaking (bad) firmware encryption. Case study on the Netgear Nighthawk M1". Non-technical Forbes summary and headline is good for discovery (e.g. search/bots), technical overview links threads of research, and case study enables replication. Each page has a role.

Submitter submits more than comments, so I wonder where their heart lies.

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