Post · bonfire.cafe

@timixretroplays@digipres.club · 3 hours ago

#Mozilla say they used AI to find 22 vulnerabilities in #Firefox v148, and *271* in v150: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-security-zero-day-vulnerabilities/

Stepping away from the usual discourse around AI in software development for a moment - is that realistic? Literal hundreds of unpatched, unknown flaws in software used by millions every day, just waiting to be found and cracked?

Like, is it just changing variable types and claiming it's fixed a buffer overflow 200 times, or *is all modern software* actually that fragile and risky?

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/

The zero-days are numbered

Since February, the Firefox team has been working around the clock using frontier AI models to find and fix latent security vulnerabilities in the browser.

#firefox #mozilla

I love this, so I

@jpm@aus.social · 3 hours ago

@timixretroplays my question is, what's changed between FF 148 and 150 to introduce so many new bugs?

Tim 🎮

@timixretroplays@digipres.club · 2 hours ago

@jpm I suspect the only major change is that AI tool - I imagine if they ran Mythos over v148 they'd get similar results, but haven't bothered because it's an obsolete release. I doubt very much they've introduced 12x the flaws in the space of two versions............ Unless AI also wrote the new code?