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In an attempt to get myself to write more here is my own shortform feed. Ideally I would write something daily, but we will see how it goes.
Here is a thing that I think would be cool to analyze sometime: How difficult would it have been for AI systems to discover and leverage historical hardware-level vulnerabilities, assuming we had not discovered them yet. Like, it seems worth an analysis to understand how difficult things like rowhammer, or more recent speculative execution bugs like Spectre and Meltdown would have been to discover, and how useful they would have been. It's not an easy analysis, but I can imagine the answer coming out obviously one way or another if one engaged seriously with the underlying issue.
Sure, but does a vulnerability need to be famous to be useful information? I imagine there are many vulnerabilities on a spectrum from minor to severe and from almost unknown to famous?
In an attempt to get myself to write more here is my own shortform feed. Ideally I would write something daily, but we will see how it goes.