Claude Can Port Exploits, But That Doesn’t Mean It’s Ready for the Job
What jumped out at me isn’t that Claude managed the port. It’s that the whole exercise still looks painfully human-gated. Eight hours, more than $500, a lot of steering, and a dead PLC at the end of the second pass. That is not “AI independently finding and weaponizing an OT weakness.” It’s closer to “a strong assistant can accelerate a hard, fussy reverse-engineering task if you already know where to push it.” That distinction matters. The interesting part of the report is the failure mode, not
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