45 Microsoft fucked security researcher Nightmare-Eclipse after he found 6 zero-day vulnerabilities and Microsoft refused to pay him through their big bounty saying they didn't count. MS shutdown his github & Gitlab. Now researchers are sending him their zero-days as well (deadeclipse666.blogspot.com) posted 23 days ago by CoolAsACucumber 23 days ago by CoolAsACucumber +45 / -0 Announcing Bitskrieg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Soooo, something extremely funny is happening. After the recent events, multiple researche... 47 comments share 47 comments share save hide report block hide replies
Monte carlo methods. Literally: "Try random shit in a simple pattern designed to maximize coverage."
The search space is simply too large to do anything else.
And waste millions of dollars in tokens in the process.
I was talking about the mutation-based ones. They get hybridized with MC frequently, but would be classed as Genetic Algorithms if I'm not mistaken.
There is only a minor difference. One is a random destination and one is a random walk. In a two dimensional space there is no expected difference in outcome. In higher dimensional spaces the random walk fails almost immediately.