Today in InfoSec Job Security News:

[carpetbomberz@mastodon.online]

@funnymonkey @GossiTheDog Insert Mickey Mouse as the Sorcerer's Apprentice, and all those animated mops carrying pails of water...

[sassinake@mastodon.social]

@carpetbomberz @funnymonkey @GossiTheDog

this. Exactly this.

[gerhardd@olching.social]

@GossiTheDog That #claude #AI has been created to solve the „we have too much electricity“ problem.

[jab01701mid@mastodon.social]

@GossiTheDog It's almost like, maybe, only humans should program computers. Computers should not be submitting and merging their own PRs, am I right ?

[jab01701mid@mastodon.social]

@GossiTheDog "AI" is the cryptocurrency of IT.

[vlkr@social.tchncs.de]

@GossiTheDog https://github.com/claude right now showing "Something went wrong, please refresh the page to try again." Yeah, dude.

[vv@solarpunk.moe]

@GossiTheDog i keep waiting for a scandal to break out about this, but it never comes

[c64whiz@oldbytes.space]

@GossiTheDog

Makes me wonder if this is a effort by "closed source" to disrupt/poison/discredit open source? 🤔

[azuaron@cyberpunk.lol]

@draeath @nihkeys @DJGummikuh @GossiTheDog If it was an accident, or incompetence, then it would be rapidly corrected.

If it's not rapidly corrected, then it is the purpose.

[perigee@rage.love]

@GossiTheDog @deliberately_me oh goodie. Our global repository has been compromised by a worm.

[synlogic4242@social.vivaldi.net]

@GossiTheDog loltears. ie. fools suffer consequences of being fools, but at scale

[el0j@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@GossiTheDog Fortunately, I can choose to not engage.

[tknarr@mstdn.social]

@GossiTheDog I think @timbray might be interested in that too.

[geoglyphentropy@mstdn.social]

@GossiTheDog Not just bad vibes, but the *same* bad vibes repeated endlessly!

[kiernian@infosec.exchange]

@c64whiz @GossiTheDog
This was honestly my first thought.

The vast majority of the tv-news-watching public barely understands computers as it is through no real fault of their own as they have been spoonfed "magic and mystery" since the dialup days.

The distinction of "open source = MORE dangerous than big company software" would be very easy for a front of united major media outlets owned by a handful rich folks to spread and most people will not be equipped to tell facts from misinformation.

How well have those open source legal protections been working against the "smart TV" industry? I'd bet every TV holding shelf I hit at Wal-Mart will be stocked with misappropriated GPL code and no source distribution.

This is the same tactic major corps use to obtain IP for themselves.

Lock up the originator in tedious, costly busywork (typically legal, claiming infringement to start a costly time-consuming trial, for most corps) and then when the originator can't handle it and collapse under the weight of it all, the corps take the product as their own.

Tying up repos with vulnerabilities that might not get noticed just might work out well for the major software outfits in the long run.

It's reprehensible and a little more haphazard, but it sure looks awfully familiar.

[n1xnx@tilde.zone]

@GossiTheDog
Aaaahhh!
Who is giving clankers commit privileges to their repositories? Seems like an obvious failure of project management.

[n1xnx@tilde.zone]

@keith_lawson @GossiTheDog

I keep pointing out to my coworkers that these clankers are trained on StackOverflow posts that contain code examples followed by "here's what I wrote, why doesn't it work?"

[crypticrainfall@app.wafrn.net]

This is just starting to sound like a cyber attack.

[gmoore@thepit.social]

@GossiTheDog This kind of basic stuff is easily caught by any free static analysis tool. There's no excuse to not be running one in one's repo, vibe-coded or not.

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@Drat @da_667 @GossiTheDog It does. In the form I was really fond of it's $50 per 750 ml and makes you say stupid shit like, "GASP...that's really smooth...." and then shove your head up your ass.

But I'm actually sick to death of that kind of oblivion. The shit I have to unsee just keeps adding up as does the shame of letting shit pass by unopposed.