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by latexr 81 days ago
> I'm curious whether the security community thinks more non-specialists finding and reporting vulnerabilities like this is a net positive or a headache?

cURL had to stop the bug bounty program because they were inundated by slop reports of vulnerabilities which don’t exist.

https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/20312

It’s good that you found and reported something real, but that isn’t the norm.

Also, from the article:

> AI tooling has sped up not just the creation of malware but also the detection.

That’s an awful tradeoff. Detection is not a fix.