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CuriouslyCyesterday at 4:10 PM1 replyview on HN

People who pentest spend more time running a playbook than puzzling over the logical problem of how to break a piece of software. Even a lot of zero days are more about knowing a pattern and mass scanning for it across a lot of code than playing chess vs a codebase and winning.


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kranneryesterday at 4:14 PM

Fine, but is that the entirely of software development? It even seems a waste of time by your own reasoning if it's so automatable already.