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Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'

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Re: Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'

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Post by HDBaseT »

Aurornis wrote: post #10
stabbles wrote: post #5

Isn't it mostly the medium that's problematic? With an issue tracker it's easier to close as duplicate

An open visibility tracker would be a goldmine for finding new exploits before a fix is even available. From what I’ve seen many of the AI bug search operators are newer to security research. They’re burning their tokens trying to find kernel bugs as their claim to fame before other people with AI tools find them first. They don’t spend time de-duplicating their own bugs. Some of them may not be coming from real peop…

Analysis of changes in the source code is already heavily analyzed by both threat actors and researchers in a desperate attempt to find code which likely was changed as a result of a bug or exploit patch.

Re: Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'

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Post by chadgpt3 »

vitally3643 wrote: post #67
fhn wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

old people like the old tools that they grew up using

This is the reason behind essentially every reply I've ever seen to this question. "I like it this way because it's always been this way and once you change your entire email workflow and customize your email client, it's almost as good as PHPbb" Forums are built for threads and are immediately visible and accessible for everyone , not just people who want to spend their limited time dicking with email clients. Maili…

You like forums for the same reason - because you grew up with them.

Today's preteens will be pining for Discord in the 2050s era of AI Neuralink vibe-telepathy. They'll say once you change your entire workflow and customize your client, phpBB is almost as good as Roblox chat or TikTok comments.

Re: Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'

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Post by [deleted] »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #48
probably_wrong wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd warn HN users not to click on that link simply because it will load a 26Mb message that will likely cause quite a strain on kernel.org's servers if everyone here does it.

I was curious how much of an impact HN could have. Napkin math: HN gets 24M views a day. Assume those views are evenly distributed across the front page (they aren’t), and that’s about 1M views for each front page post, assuming each user clicks on one post. By the rule of 10s (also not exact), there are 10x less views on comment threads. So assume around 100k views on a comment thread as a theoretical average. If ev…

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Re: Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'

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Post by Bender »

l1k wrote: post #9

Fun fact (or not so fun if you're a subscriber): Somebody is spamming kernel mailing lists under the name Marian Corcodel with a 26 MByte message multiple times per day containing a collection of nonsensical patches. Looks AI-generated, perhaps with the intention to poison LLMs. This has been going on for a few days now. https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAGg4U=GNtCObd_Nbm_1Rr5FEvPb69Yz...

Why can't they block the people doing this? Bring on the ban hammer.
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