What is the future of computer hacking?

Started by Legend, Feb 08, 2018, 06:21 PM

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Legend

Right now hackers are more or less behind the latest software. Almost all hacking is because places are not up to date with their security. Finding exploits for new stuff is rare and is often patched out quickly. For example a method of reading memory from other programs was announced a few weeks ago and patched. Sure this patch decreased computer speed and is now a major thing being optimized, but the exploit itself was taken care of.

So what do you think will be the future of hacking? Will it continue like it is now with hacking being one step behind security? Will hackers move ahead and start finding big exploits that can't be patched, essentially making computers never secure? Will security methods outpace hackers, essentially making computer security a solved problem?

What are your thoughts?

ethomaz

Feb 08, 2018, 08:56 PM Last Edit: Feb 08, 2018, 09:00 PM by ethomaz
Hummm...

Hackers are one step ahead security like always did.

Hacker find a exploit that the security didn't even have ideia it could happen. Hacked tells the security about that. Hacker waits 30 days to release to public the exploit to give the security time to workaround.

Hackers basically didactic what security will do... they are a step ahead.

PS. There are even big prizes to hackers that find flaws in security systems... there are even tournaments made by these big security companies.

Legend

Hummm...

Hackers are one step ahead security like always did.

Hacker find a exploit that the security didn't even have ideia it could happen. Hacked tells the security about that. Hacker waits 30 days to release to public the exploit to give the security time to workaround.

Hackers basically didactic what security will do... they are a step ahead.

PS. There are even big prizes to hackers that find flaws in security systems... there are even tournaments made by these big security companies.
You think that's stable though? The rate that new exploits are discovered will stay fairly consistent, and that those exploits will continue to be patched at a similar rate?

I feel like we could easily reach the point where software innovation slows down and we start running out of exploits to be discovered. Only exploits within patches for previous exploits would happen and eventually those would all but stop too.

Or a major exploit could be discovered that breaks everything we thought about computer security and there wouldn't be a fix for decades.

Neither are mutually exclusive. I was just thinking about this the other day and realising that since it is such a young industry, the state of hacking is very likely to be vastly different 50 years from now.

ethomaz

Yeap I believe while there is research to new techs, algorithms, etc there will be new exploits.

Sofware development is a mess in terms of opening... you fix here and open dozen of new places... that won't change with decades.