mvandermeulen

That’s a cricket ball

Ever != recent years

You wouldn’t happen to work in North Norfolk would you?

You’re lucky they have even admitted a problem instead of remaining silent and quietly fixing it. Do not expect ethical behaviour from this company.

I would rather parenting be the responsibility of parents and I resent the selfish individuals who wilfully burden others with the various costs associated with their demands for safety from their own choices over taking responsibility for themselves. No impact to others is too great for those who insist anything they don’t wish to be exposed to is dealt with at the societal level.

If an at risk child’s parent is unwilling to do what they believe is the right thing by their child then they have failed the child and need to get a grip - confiscate the device or change the wifi password or sleep with the router under your pillow if you have to it’s really not that hard.

I have noticed an abundance of Claude config/skills/plugins/agents related repositories on GitHub which purport to contain some generic implementation of whatever is on offer but also contain malware inside a zip file.

They all make use of the GitHub topic feature to be found. The most recent commit will usually be a trivial update to README.md which is done simply to maintain visibility for anyone browsing topics by recently updated. The readme will typically instruct installation by downloading the zip file rather than cloning the repo.

I assume the payload steals Claude credentials or something similar. The sheer number of repos would suggest plenty of downloads which is quite disheartening.

It would take a GitHub engineer barely minutes to implement a policy which would eradicate these repos but they don’t seem to care. I have also been unable to use the search function on GitHub for over 6 months now which is irrelevant to this discussion but it seems paying customers cannot count on Github to do even the bare minimum by them.

I thought this was going to be the Super Troopers version

What was the AI slop part?

What is always the governments fault?

Thank you Europe?

Unfortunately Anthropic have completely lost my trust. It’s very unlikely that I will ever return to purchasing from a company that behaves in the manner in which they do.

This is extremely concerning. I was reading this thread thinking thank god this could only happen in the US.

My concern is around the sequence of events that needed to take place for this to happen to you. Also as a former network operator I want to know how laws like the data retention act, identify and disrupt, etc play a role in these situations - ie who triggered what. I think I’ll review your comment history.

Sounds like you have handled it in about as healthy manner as one could hope. I saw that as a compliment.

Sir Humphrey ran that meeting if I recall correctly

This is pretty much all it takes in any western country. Some areas might require a little more effort but nothing substantial.

In fairness, the blame for this kind of enabling attitude is mostly attributable to me locking myself out of the building and having to buzz my long suffering neighbours at all kinds of ungodly hours. Proud moments.

How close do we need to be for you to help a brother out? Feeling seriously unsupp0rted right now