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Perhaps we should just avoid drawing any conclusions about intent from a single line of code.



Yes. Although I suppose the probability you're a malicious actor given that you've produced a vulnerability rise substantially (though still remains quite small).


> I suppose the probability you're a malicious actor given that you've produced a vulnerability rise substantially

That's ridiculous on it's face - all software has vulnerabilities, and not all malicious actors produce vulnerabilities. Heck, the vast majority of malicious actors don't even discover vulnerabilities, they simply exploit them.


You omitted the parenthetical "(though still remains quite small)," which was important. I think the point was: if you were (miraculously, in your view) to produce a piece of software that was free of vulnerabilities, I could safely conclude that you weren't trying to maliciously produce vulnerable software. If you instead produced a piece of software that contained vulnerabilities, it would at least be possible that you were such a malicious actor, so the probability would be higher, if still very small (small-but-nonzero vs. zero).




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