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seems more like the entirely forseeable consequences of handing out a scan of your ID to a fucking app.

Like I said to a PM today, we're passing through the FA phase and will soon enter the FO phase.

Can't wait for it to happen to our OSes! Will definitely be a very fun and not stressful time!

Between exploits like this and Musk running loose in the government, we are going to have to reinvent and reissue credentials to the whole population

Those ones are absolutely actually Russian hackers timebombing everything and exfiltrating all the data… but STILL vibecoding it all, so it's multiple fiascos. They mean to vibecode COBOL. Yeah have fun with that… these are not bright people and things got out of hand.

And with this asshole dumbfuck government, there will be no investigations, no convictions, no consequences.

Yep

We'll spend years cleaning up AI/vibe code digital asbestos.

(He says, writing what in retrospect is a post entirely intended to be related to this particular issue but also so generic it could be said about more or less any ill-advised endeavour that ends up hurting people in history...)

No, I mean, the website was destroyed. I didn't realize it was restored. It sounded pretty apocalyptic at the time.

I mean, the app is owned by people who can be sued.

Let’s be clear, lots of social media apps were security and privacy trash fires long before vibe coding…

Yep

What the-

this feels like basically the digital equivalent of "regulations are written in blood"

What I do badly want is a world where tech is *actually*, *safely* accessible to all. That is not our current path.