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> new features/code? Note that new code which is not intrinsically buggy can expose a latent bug in some other place which hadn't been found until then. > Jus
by masklinn 4y ago
> new features/code?
Note that new code which is not intrinsically buggy can expose a latent bug in some other place which hadn't been found until then.
> Just new bug detection techniques?
Or people (white or black hats) giving a new area a try, from time to time there's a seminal paper or attack on a domain which hadn't been much looked at previously, and turns out to be flush with targets.
- xpressvideoz 4y ago> people (white or black hats) I've just realized that these terms may also be subject to the crazy "every word is racism" movement these days. shudders
- rippercushions 4y agoAllowhats and denyhats? Or maybe defenderhats and exploiterhats.
- gilrain 4y agoI also disapprove of the irrational behavior I imagine might exist, potentially.
- dekhn 4y agoI think that stopped a few years ago when people realized it wasn't reasonable.
- Gigachad 4y agoDid we? Renaming the master branch was clearly ridiculous but everything is still moving over to main. I think we are in for a never ending series of name changes.