Security through obscurity has lost its obscurity, and the kernel is stronger for it.
Development
Swarms push kernel CVEs from 500 toward 2,000 per release
Claim
Swarms loosed on 40 million lines of Linux pushed kernel CVEs from 500 per release toward 2,000, while an open agent workspace shipped from 933 contributors and 16,000 pull requests.
Reported metric: 500 to 2,000 CVEs
Reporting date: (not necessarily the event date)
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