TREE NEWS update: Bitcoin Core will now publish fixes and security advisories quickly for vulnerabilities that a simple LLM prompt could uncover, instead of withholding them for up to roughly a year under its severity-based rules. The policy change applies to bugs deemed easy to rediscover with AI tools.
Bitcoin Core Tightens Disclosure Policy for LLM-Findable Bugs
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This is a notable shift in open-source security culture: the assumption that obscurity buys time is being tested against AI-assisted rediscovery. Bitcoin Core is effectively conceding that some bugs can no longer be kept quiet, which changes the disclosure calculus for maintainers and for anyone running older node versions. The practical effect is a shorter window between a fix and public awareness for a subset of vulnerabilities, raising the premium on timely upgrades. Whether other projects adopt similar LLM-specific carve-outs, and how the boundary of 'easy to rediscover' is drawn, is the open question.
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