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 No.545185

Chrome OS is literally the Chrome Browser running on top of Gentoo. So unless you find a vulnerability in either of them, there isn't really any attack surface.


 No.545211

Oh, wow, 100 thousand dollars? To hack some shitty operating system no one uses?

Fuck let me just whip up some code post haste huh anon?


 No.545274

>>545211

>Oh, wow, 100 thousand dollars?

Who are you, and what do you do that that is an amount to scoff at?


 No.545295

>>545274

Not him but 100,000 is something to scoff at. It's nothing nowadays. You have to be piss poor to think that's something.


 No.545311

You need to think; how much effort and time is required to crack it, compared to the amount of money being offered? If it takes someone approximately two years or longer to crack it, assuming they're working on the crack full-time and have no other income source, they'd end up earning less than the average American makes in that same amount of time (~54k per year, compared to 100k for two+ years work). If that person manages to crack it in under two years, they would earn an about average or greater-than-average amount compared to what the average American would have made in that same amount of time. And, consider that this is something far outside of the skill set of the average American; comparing it to the average income is severely lowballing the value of the time of any person capable of this.

I wouldn't say 100k is something to scoff at, for the average American that's worth about two years of their lives. But, considering the amount of effort that would be required for the crack, and considering that it needs to be a fucking web exploit that overrides hardware-level security features, and must be executable through a guest account with no privileges, I don't think 100k is an appropriate amount.


 No.545504

>>545274

You misread him. He isn't scoffing.

>>545295

fuck off troll


 No.545505

>>545311

>the average American makes in that same amount of time (~54k per year,

That's the median annual household income, not the median annual individual salary/earnings. And median != average.


 No.545506

>>545311

You act as though they would be working as often and long as a average job. More than likely the people doing it would be people who are already pen testers in their freetime or NEETs who wouldn't get that much money anyway




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