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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel

576 points · 408 comments · luispa

Fordec · 1790904069 · focus · HN ↗
This is great, more access did provide more eyes on these problems.
But, does that all of these being found now call into question, not the open source model logic itself, but the ability of human eyes to find security issues? These vulnerabilities have been sitting here for however long, but how many thousands of humans did not find them before AI?
1. SchemaLoad · 1790904218 · focus · HN ↗
  Even before AI we have known that no one is smart enough to write bug free C. And with every bug being a launch platform for a full exploit it's become a big deal.
  1. 1over137 · 1790904271 · focus · HN ↗
    No one is smart enough to write bug free in any language.
    zakisaad · 1790904655 · focus · HN ↗
    This is the reason why performant and "safe" systems languages are on the rise and being accepted into foundational areas of our operating systems (such as the kernel). When the attack defense surface is tighter (language, tooling, compiler instead of the actual code itself), the smart folks can stay at that layer, while the masses can write more code at a level of abstraction that nullifies many of these vulnerabilities by default.

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