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Comment by verandaguy

No, let's not get comfortable. Let's get angry at the fact that now we have hyperscalers acting with impunity, failing to properly sandbox their testbeds, and increasing the workload imposed on our public services.

Today it's a fake tip to the police and and exploit chain against Huggingface, but soon it could be an attack against a hospital's IT systems that could cost real lives immediately.

We should be locking things down, yes, but a hardened system is still vulnerable to zero day chains, and that's not unprecedented. Until public services have built up the IT defence capacity to deal with this, we cannot normalize this. If a country did this to another country, it should be treated as a war crime in the same way that targeting a hospital or an orphanage or other critical civilian infrastructure would be.

Complacency is a choice and we must not be complacent.

parent verandaguy 21 days ago

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