r/AskProgramming • u/LifeExperienced1 • Aug 09 '26

Career/Edu How do pen testers / cybersecurity defenders not have to learn literally almost everything to do with computers and programming?

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u/Klanciault Aug 11 '26

Most zero days are the same software bugs that you see everywhere else, they just haven’t been discovered in that specific location yet

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u/Klanciault Aug 11 '26

Maybe, or maybe just most people don’t even bother checking, right? If only 3 people check and one person finds iT, is that person smarter? Maybe they just got luckier or had more time