The cause isn’t secrecy or ignorance but maintenance maturity: backporting is manual, small teams spend their time on features, and many maintainers judge cutting a patch release to cost more than leaving users exposed. Josh Bressers draws the bigger conclusion: AI has made finding vulnerabilities nearly free while fixing them is as expensive as ever, and nobody yet knows how to add weight to the fixing side.
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Original: “Finding missing security backports with Roi Nisimi”, Josh Bressers with Roi Nisimi (Orca Security), Open Source Security podcast, November 2, 2026, 31 minutes. Above is the AI’s take on what is being argued in the interview. May not reflect the original.
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