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by shadowgovt 1611 days ago
Interestingly, they are likely to find things that the developers themselves don't yet know.

These systems are large and complicated and time is finite. When it comes to analysis of a written system, there's a lot more time free-floating in the global network of users than there is in the group of a dozen, maybe a hundred, developers who wrote the engine (many of which have immediately been re-tasked to write something else).

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