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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 point 6 months ago (4 children)

It didn't create the problem. These are existing high severity exploits

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[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago

Everyone has the assumption that they were high severity, but neither Mozilla nor Anthropic even claimed so

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[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

that nobody knew of and most with no way to exploit…

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Nobody knew of publicly, that's the whole point of a zero day

These things get found and sold and used in secret for months or years before the public find and patch

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[–] baines@piefed.social 4 points 6 months ago

you act like every exploit gives you a terminal

and do you really believe that the blue team for these companies does not have a presence on these forums trading these exploits there's a reason most the big shit is either social eng or an insider threat

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