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by balls2you 4076 days ago
"exploit" => "cyber security" => "hey look, i can do cyber and you can hire me"

just a way to market oneself I guess here by using the hyperbole of "exploit". makes sense if you want to join the knee-jerk infosec industry.

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The owner of the GitHub account is not looking for a job.

The owner of the GitHub account, on the other hand, speaks English and had heard the word “exploit” outside the context of infosec posturing. Definition appended for your perusal.

The phrase “exploit undefined behavior”, in the context of compilation, has been used for years, as a Google search would have told you.

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exploit

verb |ɪkˈsplɔɪt, ɛk-| [ with obj. ]

1 make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource): 500 companies sprang up to exploit this new technology.

2 make use of (a situation) in a way considered unfair or underhand: the company was exploiting a legal loophole. • benefit unfairly from the work of (someone), typically by overworking or underpaying them: women are exploited in the workplace.

Yeah, a guy with a username of 'balls2you' knows more about writing and computers than a professor of computer science (which the author is).