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Jean-Baptiste Kempf · 25 Sept 2026

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  1. Our reading

    Finding vulnerabilities in code has become cheaper, but reproducing, fixing, reviewing and backporting the fixes has not.

    Their wordsAnd the costs are asymmetric: finding suspicious code got cheaper; reproducing the issue, deciding whether it is exploitable, fixing it correctly, reviewing the fix, backporting it to an eight-year-old branch and not shipping a regression did not get cheaper at all.

  2. Our reading

    Keeping old software alive and building the next generation are not opposite jobs, and in open source they are usually the same job.

    Their wordsKeeping old software alive and building the next generation are not opposite jobs. In open source, they are usually the same job.

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