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pixl97 5 hours ago

The amount of code that is absolute trash in F500 could drown the world.

Static scanners are ok at find a few particular types of issues, and really bad at more abstract issues. Also having rules where you must pass static analysis has to be followed up with actually making sure your code monkeys aren't writing bullshit that confuses the scanner and lets it pass while doing nothing for security (or adding nice logic traps).

Most external security firms looking at code are more useless than a zero with the circle rubbed out. Had a fun example from a while back where the team that wrote the code inserted an intentional security flaw to be sure they were catching anything. Problem is they were giving access to the entire git history so these stood out. The moment they just gave flat code the security teams ability to find flaws disappeared.

LLM models seem to have a pretty good grasp on finding flaws in code like this once you can get the issue to stay in context and execution time. When I hear things like Mythos getting much longer time to work on the problem then at least to me it makes a lot more sense on the number of issues it's picking up.