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Socket: Node.js Eyes Public Disclosure for AI-Flooded Security Reports

Node.js is debating a TSC proposal from security maintainer Rafael Gonzaga to route most security reports into a public workflow, reserving private embargo handling for a narrower set of clearly severe cases. The push follows a sharp rise in AI/LLM-driven fuzzing and scanning submissions to HackerOne (65 reports in one month vs. a historical baseline, 252 over two years) that Gonzaga argues are reproducible by anyone and thus undermine confidentiality assumptions, while TSC member Joyee Cheung counters that public visibility just shifts the same review bottleneck from private triage to public PR handling.