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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by bananaquant on Thursday November 05, 2026 @04:17AM (#50376986)
Your argument is literal red herring. Postgres is a different project with different codebase and vastly different-sized security team.

Why not look at something like SQLite instead and conclude that things are great?

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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by QuantumNomad_ on Thursday November 05, 2026 @04:53AM (#50377266)
All I’m saying is, that it is reasonable to assume that a lot of other people also benefit from AI to find bugs in Linux.

The Linux kernel is also a huge amount of code that has been worked on by a lot of people for many many years.

There are certain types of bugs that are too obscure to realize are even there for a person alone. And there are types of bugs that even if you see that something is funky it is too time consuming to dig into for a human.

I am not saying that the Linux community is not doing great. They are doing a fantastic job, and have been for years, and they are giving all of that away for free too which is nothing short of incredible.

What I am saying is that I think AI allows everyone to find even more bugs than was humanly possible without AI.

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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by bananaquant on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:26AM (#50377480)
It seems we are in agreement then. It doesn't cost a million dollar a year super-restricted AI to find those bugs and the community is already successfully doing that.
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