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terracatta

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About terracatta

CEO of Kolide, creator of honest.security

Twitter: @jmeller Github: terracatta

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48938535

    Much safer as the technique ensures the AI agent never even sees the creds vs the CLI the inference/context can see them which opens you up to a whole class of security risk. https…

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    Comment #48937606

    You don't want passwords to enter into inference/context because once they are there the AI can accidentally share or be tricked into sending the password to other places. With thi…

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    Comment #48258956

    Usually these types of articles are written about things that challenge status quos. I remember reading a lot about Ruby on Rails in the same vein "ruby isn't a real language", "ra…

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    Comment #46902274

    Already received a private DM from someone who was accidentally infected from my comment upthread above and was angry at me. That's why.

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    Comment #46901079

    Thanks Shank, feedback received, and appreciate that you have enjoyed my other writing in the past. Thanks for being a customer.

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    Comment #46900804

    You're welcome! I will be writing more about this in the future, and I appreciate your feedback.

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    Comment #46900343

    Will do better next time.

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    Comment #46900308

    Author here, I used AI to help me write this article primarily to generalize the content and remove a lot of the specific links and dangerous commands in the malware. If you are ac…

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    Comment #46900211

    Author here, I did use AI to write this which is unusual for me. The reason was I organically discovered the malware myself while doing other research on OpenClaw. I used AI for pr…

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    Comment #45669783

    Looks like it's resolving now. I'm no longer seeing issues on either platform.

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    GitHub and Fastly having partial outage

    I know GitHub uses Fastly so there might be a relationship. Personally seeing Fastly's endpoint API returning errors https://api.fastly.com/public-ip-list and Unicorns on cached Gi…

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    Comment #45531123

    Yes because they state under the section "Root Cause Analysis" > Ruby Central failed to rotate the AWS root account credentials (password and MFA) after the departure of personnel …

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    Comment #45531044

    That email screenshot is pretty bad for Arko. It clearly shows intent to sell PII data to a third party during a time when Ruby Central had diminished funds and needed help affordi…

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    Comment #37859340

    Author here: I think you are probably right that a lot of engineering burn-out comes from things managers require engineers to do. But I think it's also true that a lot of what man…

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