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goaliecatoday at 4:37 AM1 replyview on HN

There was a double fronted marketing push by both organizations. That much is true and this makes me more skeptical of the message and how exactly it was framed.

If we just stick with c/c++ systems, pretty much every big enough project has a backlog of thousands of these things. Either simple like compiler warnings for uninitialized values or fancier tool verified off-by-one write errors that aren’t exploitable in practice. There are many real bad things in there, but they’re hidden in the backlog waiting for someone to triage them all.

Most orgs just look at that backlog and just accept it. It takes a pretty big $$$ investment to solve.

I would like to see someone do a big deep dive in the coming weeks.


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bestoufftoday at 5:59 AM

Globally agreed excepted for the "harmless" bit. Hackers are good these days, and these apparently innocuous bugs can be exploited in creative ways