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Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days

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Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days Anil Madhavapeddy is a professor of computer science at Cambridge and a core maintainer of the OCaml compiler. In this somewhat alarming post he reports that security issues in OCaml projects are seeing evidence of attempted exp…

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  1. 2026-08-28 22:12 · Simon Willison's Weblog
    Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days

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