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by pjmlp 73 days ago
> How do we professional bug hunters make sense of this? This feels like the early 2000s. Back then a kid could hack anything, with SQL Injection. Now with Claude.

Lack of accountability.

With other industries, when people aren't happy with their products, they ask for money back, they sue, they switch to the competition.

There are no EULA that assert removal of customer rights if the product is acquired.

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I don’t understand the connection to the post, could you elaborate?
Those kinds of bugs exist because no-one is accountable for quality like in other industries, unless it is on high integrity computing, or the cyber security laws that are finally coming into place across several countries.
The FSF will give you a full refund for Emacs if you’re not satisfied.
We get what we pay for, as for FSF.

https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251218-01.en.html