On: Announcing the first SHA-1 collision

[espadrine]

> the latest hot TV show in high def or whatever

Since it takes 6,500 CPU years and 110 GPU years, it won't quite be the latest show, unless you have really deep pockets.

There are way less costly ways to make money illegally using simpler vulnerabilities or by being a pay-to-use DDoS provider.

[Bartweiss → espadrine]

Realistically, the closest low-cost attack is to just upload a malware-laden torrent of the latest TV show and not even pretend. It won't get seeded as widely, but you can do the same thing again next week.