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aftbit • today at 4:05 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

The coordinated disclosure thing will have to stop soon. Ideally, if you found a vuln from the defensive side, you'd tell all the "good guys" about it and none of the bad guys. The world doesn't work that way, so instead, the compromise was to tell a small number of important big actors who were unlikely to leak it, so the most good could be done before everyone found out.

Now the simple knowledge that there might be an exploitable memory issue in some given piece of software is enough for bad actors to point LLMs at it and find the issue in hours. That will only keep getting worse.

At some point, it's going to become a speed game. If you find a vuln, you might as well disclose to everyone immediately. Anyone who runs internet-exposed software will need an agent watching for disclosures around the clock and triaging them automatically (either by upgrading, improving filtering with some protective shell, or taking the whole service offline until humans can help) to keep up with the offensive agents watching around the clock and attacking automatically.


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Arainach • today at 4:58 PM

> If you find a vuln, you might as well disclose to everyone immediately.

This still doesn't work, since attackers are much more motivated and able to pay attention to such things.

If your goal is finding vulnerabilities / stealing money / whatever, you focus all your energy looking for new exploits.

The rest of the world has other things to do (listen to users, run services, whatever) and by definition cannot spend as much of their time watching every social media in the world for the chance of an announcement.

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