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>You can point an LLM at any large codebase and it will find vulnerabilities, so "patch the planet" isn't very scalable.

So the solutions need to be structural.

e.g. relative to a monolith kernel, seL4 is small, has no known bugs (AI can try, but so far crickets) and is the only piece that needs to run privileged.

Everything running under seL4 benefits from the guarantees seL4 provides.



You still have to draw the rest of the owl though. A proven secure starting point is neat but it's not actually the system you want to build.

The solution needs to be convenient, in practice that trumps security every time. If i need to run my existing apps in Linux VM under seL4, others, fully featured hypervisors will look more enticing.

Genode appears to be very convenient if you are looking into a way to run microkernels for general purpose computing.



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