You come across a bit of code in the post-Fable era: should you trust it?

· Bits and Bobs 10/5/26
  • You come across a bit of code in the post-Fable era: should you trust it?
    • You can devote tokens to having Fable and others try to detect exploits.
    • But what if the creator devoted even more tokens to hiding an exploit?
    • You're only going to see this bit of software once, so the number of tokens you should spend to vet it is lower than the number they'd be incentivized to use to hide something.
      • If the code will run for 100 users, then their budget is 100x any one user's baseline budget.
    • If other people also vetted it and can sign off that it's safe… how do you find them? How do you know they are real people who actually tested it?
    • We're so used to living in cyber peacetime that we don't even realize how weird it's going to get to be in cyber wartime.