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The AI chatbot vulnerability reports part sure is sad to read. Why is this even a thing and isn't opt-in? I dread the idea of starting to get notifications fr

• Y_Y 10mo ago
  Because humans generate and relay the slop-reports in the hopes of being helpful
  • captn3m0 10mo ago
    s/being helpful/making money.
  • nottorp 10mo ago
    There is or was a cash bug bounty. And even if not, the motivation is building a reputation as a security “expert”.
• trollbridge 10mo ago
  Making a strcpy honeypot doesn’t sound like a bad idea… void nobody_calls_me(const char *stuff) { char *a, *b; const size_t c = 1024; a = calloc(c); if (!a) return; b = malloc(c); if (!b) { free(a); return; } strncpy(a, stuff, c - 1); strcpy(b, a); strcpy(a, b); free(a); free(b); } Some clever obfuscation would make this even more effective.
  • snvzz 10mo ago
    That got those Core SDI abo vibes. Flashback of writing exploits for these back in high school.
    • trollbridge 10mo ago
      In an interesting way, this is an attempt to exploit LLMs into revealing themselves.
• easterncalculus 10mo ago
  It's a symptom of complete failure of this industry that maintainers are even remotely thinking about, much less implementing changes in their work to stave off harassment over false security impact from bots.