Today in InfoSec Job Security News:

encrypted.vvhispers 💫

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

C64Whiz

@GossiTheDog

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

Azuaron

@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.

Mal 甄/kalessin/Peri

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

synlogic4242

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

Eddy Jansson

@GossiTheDog Fortunately, I can choose to not engage.

Todd Knarr

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

Atomic Orbitals

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

Kiernian

@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.

Steve Hersey

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

Steve Hersey

@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

This is just starting to sound like a cyber attack.

gmoore

@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

@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.

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩

@crazyeddie @Drat @da_667 @GossiTheDog

strangely poetic

and absolutely true

crazyeddie

@n1xnx @GossiTheDog Especially earlier in my career, I could easily have been taken in by thinking I'm getting actual help from a "friend" who wants to join me on the project and I'd have not really looked into it too much.

A lot of these projects are just peoples' hobbies that blow up...you know, or fail to. When they do blow up the developer(s) can end up severely overworked and frankly inexperienced for dealing with the management part.

So yeah...this is going to be a disaster.

Fooker

@fuzzyfuzzyfungus is the question not more "why is anyone using such unreliable tools in the first place?" They've proven time and time again that the result is less than sub par, they create as many if not more issues than they fix, they've fucked up ram prices and soon storage prices, they use too much energy.. i could go on but fuck, if that's not enough i don't know what to say.

Steve Hersey

@crazyeddie @GossiTheDog
Sigh. Yes, that makes perfect sense.

I remember reading commentary back in the 1980s to the effect that automating a (business) process doesn't make it BETTER, it just makes its existing failure modes happen FASTER, often with the result that the humans who were able to cope with those failures when they came at a human rate are now overwhelmed by them occurring at the speed of computer processing.

It was true then for paper-based accounting, and it's true now for collaborative software projects.

scy

@GossiTheDog But think about the AI-powered "security researchers". They can now use their AI models to find these vulnerabilities and create 8.2 severity issues to fix it again.

It's like that picture with the circular economy between Nvidia and OpenAI and Microsoft, but with 0days!

crazyeddie

@vlkr @GossiTheDog I get the same behavior here and can go to other profiles just fine

No public repos. Something went wrong.

I guess it could just be that I picked a particularly irrelevant profile to compare against but it did show up just fine without any error.

Could also be that it's too sudden a shift in interest in that particular user.