It's a little perplexing. Of course it's always a controversial topic since it's difficult to value an exploit, but whenever we read about these online, which probably goes through some survivorship bias, they seem pretty low.
As I understand it, bug bounty awards are a rough proxy for "would nation-state actors be able to exploit this for operational purposes without getting caught".
Zero-click iPhone exploits that affect the current OS and also previous ones are worth hundreds of thousands.
> Two quick notes first. The impact I describe is hypothetical. It’s what an attacker could have done with this access, but luckily I found the bug instead, reported it, and never touched any customer data or PII.
I am the last person to judge someone for using AI to help them write a blog post, but what I wonder is: Do people not read what the AI produces before putting their name on it, or is the AI writing style not obvious to some people, or do they just not care that it's obviously AI and bad style?
It's not a "normal" sentence and is quite clearly produced by an LLM, it's a typical Claudeism so probably that. The entire post is also flagged by Pangram, so OP is correct.
Prefixing saying something with "Two quick notes first" is extremely common AI meta commentary. You may be right that it is something Microsoft insisted he put at the top, which would also explain the weird style.
> awarded $5000
It's a little perplexing. Of course it's always a controversial topic since it's difficult to value an exploit, but whenever we read about these online, which probably goes through some survivorship bias, they seem pretty low.
On https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/bounty it seems the top is $100,000 or $250,000 depending which program this counts under.
What does HN think? Why would it be only $5000?
As I understand it, bug bounty awards are a rough proxy for "would nation-state actors be able to exploit this for operational purposes without getting caught".
Zero-click iPhone exploits that affect the current OS and also previous ones are worth hundreds of thousands.
wow I am so surprised to hear once again how JWTs are terrible
https://www.howmanydayssinceajwtalgnonevuln.com/
What is Antares? Can't find anything related to it except for the 1B model, which does not seem to be capable of autoresearch.
UPD: It's his personal bot.
> I also started building AI into how I hunt, which led me to develop Antares, my personal AI hackbot.
You’re going places kid :) keep up the good work
Possibly jail if the wrong people get upset.
Great way to use up that 6-10 years of vacation and sabbatical time.
Next time you find a bug like that, offer it to the black market, you could make millions instead of measly salty peanuts
I bet someone already did that and didn't disclose it.
Now some blackhat somewhere can't afford their monthly Lamborghini payment.
Wait until someone does that to your favourite cloud provider's customer data.
> Two quick notes first. The impact I describe is hypothetical. It’s what an attacker could have done with this access, but luckily I found the bug instead, reported it, and never touched any customer data or PII.
I am the last person to judge someone for using AI to help them write a blog post, but what I wonder is: Do people not read what the AI produces before putting their name on it, or is the AI writing style not obvious to some people, or do they just not care that it's obviously AI and bad style?
That.. looks like a normal sentence to me, and very probably one of the ones Microsoft required they add.
Did you give the article a once-over beyond that? It’s one of the decidedly not-AI lines.
It's not a "normal" sentence and is quite clearly produced by an LLM, it's a typical Claudeism so probably that. The entire post is also flagged by Pangram, so OP is correct.
Prefixing saying something with "Two quick notes first" is extremely common AI meta commentary. You may be right that it is something Microsoft insisted he put at the top, which would also explain the weird style.
From where do you think AI learned that?
Weird user preferences during RLHF. Also how we got bulleted lists and emojis everywhere.
All AI semantic tendencies were “learned” from us. That doesn’t change anything.