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Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’ (www.theregister.com)

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[–] qaz@lemmy.world 0 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

It would make it easier for people to find if a bug has already been reported, which is what Torvalds mentions as being a problem.

[–] dafta@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

The mailing list for security vulnerabilities is private, in order to keep zero days a secret before they are patched. This is the issue, not the mailing list. Moving away from mailing lists wouldn't solve this because the vulnerabilities would still have to be private.

[–] peterhorvath@mastodon.de 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

@qaz That is right! Looks they need a bugtracker, ideally a bugtracker integrated with the mailing list.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Well, they already use Bugzilla. Although I personally do not find it particularly intuitive to use.