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danmcsyesterday at 6:31 PM2 repliesview on HN

HackerOne was already useless years before LLMs. Vulnerability scanning was already automated.

When we put our product on there, roughly 2019, the enterprising hackers ran their scanners, submitted everything they found as the highest possible severity to attempt to maximize their payout, and moved on. We wasted time triaging all the stuff they submitted that was nonsense, got nothing valuable out of the engagement, and dropped HackerOne at the end of the contract.

You'd be much better off contracting a competent engineering security firm to inspect your codebase and infrastructure.


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strkenyesterday at 10:21 PM

We still get reports for such major issues as "this unused domain held my connection for ten seconds and then timed out, which broke the badly-written SQL injection scanner I found on GitHub and ran without understanding".

tptacekyesterday at 6:38 PM

Moreover, I don't think XBOW is likely generating the kind of slop beg bounty people generate. There's some serious work behind this.

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