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gorgoilertoday at 7:00 AM0 repliesview on HN

If everyone has access to the same offensive tools, everyone is able to run their own pentests and patch themselves before the bad guys get to them.

It’s like a vaccine where you get to try a medication based on the original pathogen by performing a dry-run on a backup of yourself already in a hospital ward.

Open models aren’t like firearms. If everyone has a gun the mall parking lot is a much more dangerous place because the consequences of using a firearm are so dire, even if you’re in the right.