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xscott • today at 11:58 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Option A) Everyone shares one OS (container, sandbox, kernel, firewall, whatever). It gets a lot of eyes on it to find bugs. Hacker fuzzes it with a lot of tokens offline. He finds one exploitable vulnerability and he owns everyone.

Option Z) Everyone vibe codes their own custom OS. Each implements and exposes only what they want. Hacker has to beat up on it online to find vulnerabilities. He finds one and he only owns that one machine.

There's probably some middle ground between A and Z, but monocultures are fragile. All eggs in one basket, potato famines, banana fungus, etc...


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joshbuddy • today at 12:46 PM

Heterogeneity is bffs with security though. Maybe option z isn't so bad after all.

jareklupinski • today at 12:29 PM

Option L) Hacker realizes theres more to be gained from joining the builders and shows both sides how to secure their lots against people worse than them