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Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’ (www.theregister.com)
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[–] -5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

maybe he will finally stop using a fucking mailing list then

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    @robbo @cm0002 That would be only the form. The amount of tasks to process would not change. His mailing software has very likely a tree view or so.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    It would make it easier for people to find if a bug has already been reported, which is what Torvalds mentions as being a problem.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago*

    The mailing list for security vulnerabilities is private, in order to keep zero days a secret before they are patched. This is the issue, not the mailing list. Moving away from mailing lists wouldn't solve this because the vulnerabilities would still have to be private.

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