points by solyin 22 hours ago | 0 comments
Blame heartbleed for the practice, which long predates ChatGPT and vibecoding. Human psychology is to blame. Only nerds are going to find CVE-2014-0160 triggering, but if I say heartbleed everyone who was there remembers.
[–] autoexec 21 hours ago
[–] cowlevel 13 hours ago
yes, the other day I remembered "that dirty page bug with AF_ALG" and apparently it's got a name, but I could've found its CVE number just as well
That has more to do with the severity of heartbleed than the fact that it had a name and a logo. I've since seen a lot of vulnerabilities try to market themselves with websites, cute names, and stupid logos but I still don't remember them because they still just weren't big enough to actually be memorable.