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spartanatreyu • today at 12:42 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

> How did we get to the point where there are a thousand privilege escalation exploits in the kernel?

> > We developed AIs that can find them.

We could already find them before AI.

We already knew they were there, and we already knew how to prevent them in the first place.

See previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49705794


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antonvs • today at 2:07 AM

Why do you think we didn’t find these 948 vulnerabilities before now?

esseph • today at 12:43 AM

> We could already find them before AI.

Not at this speed and cost.

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