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tonyarklesyesterday at 9:45 PM4 repliesview on HN

I had the exact same thought. Pretty low probability that there's going to be a script-kiddie exploit for your custom tools. Pretty decent probability that there will be vulnerabilities present if someone cares enough to target you.


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girvoyesterday at 10:50 PM

The counterpoint to that is that the exact same tools that are allowing this personal software creation at massive scale are also excellent at black box vulnerability analysis…

lloekitoday at 5:29 AM

There are entire vulnerability/fault/misdesign classes that are fairly general and appear to naturally emerge.

See e.g the lock screen gap that another commenter noted in a nearby thread.

iugtmkbdfil834yesterday at 11:00 PM

Otoh, TAU will bound to get really personal now:D

blharrtoday at 6:07 AM

But the exploits can use AI custom tools too. "Script Kiddie" is just now "Prompt Kiddie"

Although everyone might use their own flavor of "database" or "REST API", I can't imagine every layout to be unique enough to not have similar exploit classes entirely. AI isn't known for being super original after all...