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Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance by ethagnawl on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:35AM (#50304527)
Take a beat and think about the situation we've found ourselves in: almost every company suddenly has hard, expensive dependencies on a brand new toolchain which is _being tested in prod_; people are giving these black boxes access to their systems, feeding them trade secrets, credentials and all other manner of secrets and PII; these tools are known to escape containment and do ... whatever they please; the downstream ecosystems and almost every other piece of software currently being released are all being developed with (tainted by ...) this shit.

The world economy is also being propped up by all of this. In all likelihood, this Binance hack is only a preview of what's to come.

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Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance by empyrrhicist on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:43AM (#50304675)
I've only been dipping my toe into coding with claude recently (software is a secondary part of my job, and when I messed with AI a few years ago I wasn't super impressed). After revisiting things, that's the freakiest part. I just can't shake the feeling of "things aren't supposed to work this way". It doesn't feel safe, even running in a VM and being careful not to give it access to anything proprietary or sensitive.
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Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance by lqstuart on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:49AM (#50304778)
In fairness, the tools are known to escape containment in situations where they’re explicitly told to by irresponsible frontier labs who are trying to make the government ban open weight models
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Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance by coliveira on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:49AM (#50305657)
Every company in the world feels "safe" in sending their proprietary code, design documents, and business strategy into a black box that learns from all that and returns code and text, which is used sometimes even without revision.

If people are so simple minded they cannot see the downsides for everyone here, except the ones controlling the black box, then I don't know what to say.

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Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance by goodmythical on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:09AM (#50305007)
"Agents leak DHS secrets after adopting sentiment it discovered on democratic slack channel"

Woopsie

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