Mastodon users face millions of monkeys with typewriters, some writing exploits

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A user on Mastodon expressed concern about the potential for "millions of monkeys with typewriters" to generate sophisticated exploits. This analogy suggests that with enough attempts, even random processes can eventually produce harmful outcomes, highlighting a potential security vulnerability. AI

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Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 · [email protected] · 2026-04-28 05:20

@ Sempf Defenders are unfortunately going to get hit by millions of monkeys with typewriters, and some of those monkeys will write very good exploits and some w

@ Sempf Defenders are unfortunately going to get hit by millions of monkeys with typewriters, and some of those monkeys will write very good exploits and some won't," he said. He only speaks of defenders as bugfixers. Doesnt refer to day to day infra defenders where your it infra…

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@ Sempf Defenders are unfortunately going to get hit by millions of monkeys with typewriters, and some of those monkeys will write very good exploits and some w

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