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Comment by NitpickLawyer

Skipping over the cringe writing style, I really don't get the hate on Anthropic here. What would people want from them? Not disclose? Not name names? I'm confused how that would move the field forward.

At the very least, this whole incident is ironic in that a chinese threat actor used claude instead of the myriad of claude killers released in china every other week.

At another level this whole thing opens up a discussion about security, automated audits and so on. The entire industry lacks security experts. In eu we have a deficit, from bodies in SOCs to pen-testers. We definitely could use all the help we can get. If we go past the first wave of "people submit bullshit AI generated reports" (which, for anyone that has ever handled a project on h1 or equivalent, is absolutely nothing new - it's just that in the past the reports were both bullshit and badly written), then we get to the point where automated security audits become feasible. Don't value "reports", value "ctf-like" exercises, where agents "hunt" for stuff in your network. The results are easily verified.

I'll end on this idea that I haven't seen mentioned on the other thread that got popular yesterday: for all the doomerism that's out there regarding vibe coding and how insecure it is, and how humans will earn a pay check for years fixing vibe coded projects, here we have a bunch of companies with presumably human devs, that just got pwned by an AI script kiddie. Womp womp.

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