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How is Tavis Ormandy's blog a malicious site?


Sorry, to clarify Norton raised an alert on this domain. So proceed with caution.


yeah, funny how antivirus software would complain about the website of somebody known, among other things, for demonstrating a lot of security flaws in antivirus software.


fyi Tavis is a very well known and respected security researcher from Project Zero, and this is his site so it's nothing to worry about :) I mean he _could_ hack everyone if he wanted but he'd pretty quickly be in a whole lot of trouble

You can see that he links to this as his site on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/taviso

Interestingly, I wonder if Norton doesn't like it since the name is related to an old vulnerability. From his site:

> Q. What is the origin of your domain name?

> There was a bug in early Pentiums called the f00f bug, it would cause a deadlock if you used in invalid operand with cmpxchg8b with the lock prefix. It was an important vulnerability at the time, and I thought it would be fun to own lock.cmpxchg8b.com.




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