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Rebuttal of the LLM-found-the-bug framing

hodlonaut-may2025-prior-discovery-rebuttal

https://x.com/hodlonaut/status/2086058591367143488

Captured screenshot of the post by @hodlonaut, posted 8 Aug 2026, 11:54 UTC
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hodlonaut quotes a Coldcard statement that the bug lived in public for five years and that frontier LLMs were needed to find it, then counters that the flaw was pointed at by a person in May 2025 with no frontier model, was traced to the library by name, and was later found again with ordinary code-analysis tools after disclosure. Held as a dated correction to the vendor's public explanation of how the bug was discovered, citing a prior report. The May 2025 claim and the characterization of the company's response are the poster's own and are not independently verified here.

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