They probably paid a million for this vibe coded app. I am confident that I could somehow make this.
Super common here in Germany that sensitive data is handled via crappy apps that essentially have backdoors.
If you break them and report the bug you can be prosecuted under some hacking paragraph.
If you break them and report the bug you can be prosecuted under some hacking paragraph.
The old shoot the messenger approach!
We’ve had some high profile examples in the US too. Like this one, from 2021. A professor was investigated by governor Mike Parson of Missouri, for literally using View Page Source in a browser. And reporting a major vulnerability in good faith. I linked Parson’s wikipedia page, because he deserves his ridicule. Not for his ignorance! Many are ignorant of how the web works. That’s OK. He deserves ridicule for how he handled the episode. For dragging the professor’s name through the mud, who had only tried to help.
In the end, the governor received much ridicule. The investgation was dropped.
Merkels famous quote (“Das Internet ist für uns alle Neuland” - “The internet is new ground for all of us”) still holds true in 2026 lol. Literal third world countries are more advanced when it comes to digitization and stuff lol.
This Meta’s stupid attempt to not get sued for addicting kids. They want to force the problem on the entire world, so they cant be held responsible. They are pushing these same laws in several countries, Brazil just passed a near identical law.
Meta would steal your right to privacy, and force you to identify yourself to every single electronic device you own just to avoid being held liable for harming children. Absolutely disgusting. Zuck belongs in the deepest pits of hell.
They want to force the problem on the entire world, so they cant be held responsible.
Yah. On top of that, big tech cos often likes high regulatory burden. Ideally different between countries and jurisdictions. Big tech can afford compliance teams and w/e else they need. But! High regulatory burden is harder for upstart competitors. And very hard or impossible for tiny projects.
The same with technical burden. Like browser engines, used to be simple, now, extremely complex with wasm and webgl and stuff. There are only a few left standing. And some only barely.
The higher the burden, the more big tech is entrenched.
That message at the bottom was written by “it’s open source so it must be safe” type security expert
I think he’s quoting Von Der Leyen because it’s the same person that posted the exploit and the whole thing was in quotes
And they think I’m going to add my ID into an app?! Let alone an unsafe one. No, thank you. I’ll just carry a physical card, which is already mandatory.
I stay away from anything this ghoul has to offer
Why would you tell them about this? LLMs are creating a golden era of cracking, and exploits are currency.
Some people actually want to improve the world without needing to get rich quick
What, by helping governments impose online controls on their own people? So thankless.
Sometimes people won’t understand that an idea can’t work until they try implementing it and the practical issues hit them in the face. Better now than once everyone is forced to use it.
I guess if they have a bug bounty you’re still helping the fuckers, just taking cash for it. At least this way they are looking stupid and incompetent.
I wish I could say I was surprised
The only way they will get the message is if there is a concerted white hat campaign targeting EU lawmakers to show them the error of their ways. If they refuse to see, then some black hats need to make them feel it.
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