RSS BotMB to Hacker [email protected]English • 2 months agoOpen source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AIwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up139arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: technology[email protected]
arrow-up139arrow-down1external-linkOpen source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AIwww.theregister.comRSS BotMB to Hacker [email protected]English • 2 months agomessage-square9fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology[email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 months ago Edit edit: it’s all in the article, darnit. Sorry. It is? I must have missed it but I can’t find any discussion of motivation even on a second read-through.
minus-squareNightwatch AdminlinkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-22 months agoI meant it’s all about security vulnerability submissions, and although not explicit in the article, those submissions are therefore very likely meant to up the reputation for xz-like attacks meant to annoy/bully the devs denial of service by delaying triage and therefore delaying creating patches submitted by boatloads in the hope of cashing in on bug bounties
It is? I must have missed it but I can’t find any discussion of motivation even on a second read-through.
I meant it’s all about security vulnerability submissions, and although not explicit in the article, those submissions are therefore very likely