The Hardest Fork
Summary: Dan Lorenc, CEO and co-founder of Chainguard, writes that the AI vulnerability-finding capability called Mythos chains a few dozen issues out of thousands that SAST scanners already flag into novel, exploitable combinations, and that the capability is coming even if this specific model is a hoax. He argues open source consumption is fundamentally broken, that coordinated disclosure was built for a world where finding a serious bug took weeks, and that a model can now find hundreds overnight in the long tail, with Glasswing having upstreamed only about 6% of its findings and coordinated disclosure reaching maybe 50% of projects at best.
Why it matters: The article's own numbers set the exposure: roughly half of open source projects may never get a working coordinated disclosure path, and the default outcome if nobody centralizes is competing vendor forks of the same critical libraries with no clear map of which CVEs are fixed in which. The proposed answer is a funded, neutral maintainer of last resort that forks and maintains thousands of projects - a decision the author says is the only real option and the hardest fork any of us has had to make.
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