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XBOW, an autonomous penetration tester, has reached the top spot on HackerOne

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283 points summarity | 6 comments | 24 Jun 25 15:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
1. andrewstuart ◴[24 Jun 25 17:55 UTC] No.44368881[source]▶
All the fun vanishes.
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2. tptacek ◴[24 Jun 25 18:38 UTC] No.44369349[source]▶
Good. It was in the way.
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3. kiitos ◴[24 Jun 25 18:47 UTC] No.44369485[source]▶
In the way of what?
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4. tptacek ◴[24 Jun 25 18:51 UTC] No.44369540{3}[source]▶
Getting more bugs fixed.
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5. kiitos ◴[24 Jun 25 20:53 UTC] No.44370930{4}[source]▶
> Getting more bugs fixed.

OK.. but "getting more bugs fixed" isn't any kind of objective success metric for, well, anything, right?

It's fine if you want to use it as a KPI for your specific thing! But it's not like it's some global KPI for everyone?

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6. tptacek ◴[24 Jun 25 21:43 UTC] No.44371391{5}[source]▶
It's very specifically the objective of a security bug bounty.