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Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel

576 points · 408 comments · luispa

intrepidsoldier · 1790914300 · focus · HN ↗
Just the beginning. AI is going to expose how fragile the entire computing infrastructure in our world is.
1. flohofwoe · 1790934118 · focus · HN ↗
  No, it will be a tsunami of new discoveries in old code bases at first, but that will settle down as those old bugs are fixed. It's been like this with every new code analysis tool (the wave may be exceptionally high this time though).
  1. abathologist · 1790958709 · focus · HN ↗
    I predict a different outcome: the rate of vulns identified and fixed will be more than matched by the rate of new vulns introduced by irresponsible use of LLMs on top of brittle and unwieldy tech stacks.
    The result will be an overall increase in turbulence and the normalization of steadily intensifying security crises in nearly all software systems.
    The only projects that will escape this fate are those which have either been already developed from ground up with rigorous and principled, verified (or verifiable) design, or those which are rewritten to gain this.

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