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ethnut··on Some thoughts on the ETH's Threema analysis
I agree with the need for the research in the area. they are a big team and the yearly bug they identify in messenger services benefit the public.

I lament the dissemination by that group, always through a PR wave trying to place shocking headlines amplified by the school PR. that was the same in their past discoveries.

ethnut··on Some thoughts on the ETH's Threema analysis
the blog post is well written and underlines the fact that Paterson and students tend to oversell the magnitude of the bugs they find and patch in messengers, always with quite the publicity involved and often overstating the rarity of the circumstances occurring that lead to the bugs