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To be honest I was a little disappointed when I saw this talk. Its title was not accurate for a presentation at ccc. It is neither advanced nor attributable to a nation state. It grossed me out when the nontechnical guy hyped things and the hired gun shied away, making it clear the nontechnical guy is grandstanding - also not appropriate for ccc- so I left before it ended.

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To be honest I was a little disappointed when I saw this talk.

Agreed. The technical sophistication of the described spear-fishing attack was certainly low, using 10-year-old software and requiring the victim to enable macros, when prompted, after opening the excel spreadsheet. The only takeaway from this talk was that a dozen or so fishing emails were related together by the excel spreadsheet metadata.

Certainly not worthy material for the front page of HN, in my opinion.

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