Falcon Darkstar Momot, Dartmouth College
What if it was bug classes, and not bugs, that were short-lived? By going back to the original formal understandings of computing, we can understand why we keep finding the same kinds of bugs in different places over and over. The first step in understanding how to break out lies not with developers or tooling, but with us. One seeks to understand why security bugs get introduced in general, for which I begin proposing a framework-in-progress of meta-classes of bugs. A LangSec lens shows us unique ways out of each.
Falcon Darkstar Momot, M.Sc., MBA, B.Acc., is a (very recent) student working on LangSec in the Trust Lab at Dartmouth College. They are also the product security manager of the multi-cloud managed database company Aiven, and previously worked in penetration testing for a decade. They are a local Seattle hacker, and just flew in from BSidesLV and DEF CON.
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author = {Falcon Darkstar Momot},
title = {Escaping Cantor{\textquoteright}s {Find-Fix} Cycle},
year = {2025},
address = {Seattle, WA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = aug
}