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Here are two nice blog posts on the state of the art of this "not too hard" problem: https://maniagnosis.crsr.net/2017/06/AFL-brute-force-search.html https://ma

Here are two nice blog posts on the state of the art of this "not too hard" problem: https://maniagnosis.crsr.net/2017/06/AFL-brute-force-search.html https://maniagnosis.crsr.net/2017/06/AFL-brute-force-search.... https://maniagnosis.crsr.net/2017/06/AFL-bug-in-quicksearch.html https://maniagnosis.crsr.net/2017/06/AFL-bug-in-quicksearch.... Possible? Yes. Too time-consuming and fiddly for the economic realities of 99.9% of all programmers? Yes, that too.

pjmlp 9y ago
The economic realities would be quite different if software companies were legally accountable for their defects, just like in many other industries.
- eru 9y ago
  That would mostly mean that only big companies that can afford a herd of lawyers would be able to produce software. At least that how bank regulation works out in practice.