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Tiberiumtoday at 5:13 PM3 repliesview on HN

In my personal experience Sol with cyber verification is extremely capable of finding vulnerabilities, and it works even with binaries if you have some kind of IDA/Ghidra CLI access. Of course, unless the binary is protected with Denuvo/VMProtect/etc.

It sounds absurd, but in the last few weeks I've had a few cases where Sol found an RCE in self-hosted web applications in literal minutes just from reading the code (I prefer when it tries to reason statically instead of spamming runtime probes at first).

In another case it found an arbitrary file write in multiplayer in an old game by reverse engineering the binary - any other player in a match could just send you files to anywhere on your system.

I do these things for pure entertainment and curiosity, not for money from bug bounties, so if Sol can find those with a trivial prompt in tens of minutes for me, then what can focused companies/actors find in days or weeks?

Although I think most vulnerabilities are going to be closed in popular software by mid 2027, except in niche old or abandoned projects.


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matheusmoreiratoday at 5:45 PM

> it found an arbitrary file write in multiplayer in an old game by reverse engineering the binary

Video games are now ruined for me. I don't think I will ever feel safe playing online again.

> I do these things for pure entertainment and curiosity, not for money from bug bounties

Me too... Was it easy to get TAC access? My account isn't even launching the Persona verification, says I'm not eligible.

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LoganDarktoday at 5:36 PM

Is cyber verification a thing they're actually doing now? I thought they only reached out to really incredibly famous people and that there's no way to get access as a normal person.

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mephuxtoday at 5:28 PM

Link to the disclosures then.. prove it. Anyone can say this.. i found an RCE in netBSD using gemma e2b

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