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[–] mii@awful.systems 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Quick personal sneer: I just had a call with a company trying to sell us their SaaS password/secrets manager solution because we're trying to force everyone to use one instead of using hunter2 everywhere.

Anyway, after going on for 30 minutes about their amazing integrations with every platform on the planet and their super duper security and how their systems are rock solid and never fail, the marketing dude finished off by trying to sell ChatGPT integration as a feature. Not for actual passwords, thank fuck, but in order to quickly produce integrations between their APIs and other systems. He proudly proclaimed that "Usually there's no security issues with just copy-pasting the code from ChatGPT."

Usually.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

what

whattttttttt

whatttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

and it's not like crowdstrike didn't just happen. I guess maybe it was too recent, and the lesson-of-pain hasn't percolated through to dipshit"integration advisor" technical sales fuckwits yet

bonus round, whatever the hell lemmy did here:

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 24 points 3 months ago

It only shows it like that to you because it's your password.

[–] self@awful.systems 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

ah yeah, the well-known nter2 Rust function that lets you… enter the number 2, you know?

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

would've thought that's a js/ts package