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Re:Code highlighting with Cursor AI used for $500k theft by meander_water on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @08:28AM (#44570447)
There's actually a new setting in vscode (from Dec 24) to configure a whitelist for extensions that are allowed to be installed on a user's machine [0]. It's not foolproof, but it probably helps to prevent common supply chain attacks. I wonder if this could be used in cursor too.

[0] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/enterprise#_configu...

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Re:Code highlighting with Cursor AI used for $500k theft by benhurmarcel on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @01:56PM (#44573986)
I dread the day our IT department gets their hands on that
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