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bawolffyesterday at 6:15 AM1 replyview on HN

Bugs are not the same as (real) high severity bugs.

If you find a bug in a web browser, that's no big deal. I've encountered bugs in web browsers all the time.

You figure out how to make a web page that when viewed deletes all the files on the user's hard drive? That's a little different and not something that people discover very often.

Sure, you'll still probably have a long queue of ReDoS bugs, but the only people who think those are security issues are people who enjoy the ego boost if having a cve in their name.


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kackerlackeryesterday at 7:14 AM

Eh, with browsers you can tell the user to go to hell if they don't like a secure but broken experience. The problem in most software is that you commit to bad ideas and then have to upset people who have higher status than the software dev that would tell them to go to hell.