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MuteXRyesterday at 1:49 PM2 repliesview on HN

You know that people can already write backdoored code, right?


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dec0dedab0deyesterday at 2:42 PM

Yeah, and they can write code with vulnerabilities by accident. But this is a new class of problem, where a known trusted contributor can accidentally allow a vulnerability that was added on purpose by the tooling.

ipythonyesterday at 1:53 PM

But now you have compromise _at scale_. Before poor plebs like us had to artisinally craft every back door. Now we have a technology to automate that mundane exploitation process! Win!

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