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Re: GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories

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post #69

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Disabling vscode/cursor extensions auto-updates also makes sense

Can that even be done? Even if there are knobs you can turn to disable auto updates, does that cover everything that decides to change your software behind your back?

On vscode you can control autoupdates. (Still trying to find a way to control zed's overeager updating)

Re: GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories

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post #169

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does it have some kind of sandboxing for its extensions?

The extension capability is much less powerful than VSCode (no embedded web view) so it's a lot harder to pull off crazy stuff. All of the language support is done via language servers.

But in the process of installing those language servers (automatically, without notifying you) it will install node, and download npm packages, which can do crazy stuff, as we've seen recently with the shai halud redux

Re: GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories

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That's the reason I stopped installing random extensions and even themes in VS Code, they are too dangerous.

How hard would it be to have one installation step to be to have Claude read through all the code to the extension and strip out anything that looks risky (ie. Calls out to external servers).? Do that automatically for all code downloaded from the web and run outside a sandbox. Maybe won't catch everything, but should catch most evil stuff, especially if a variety of models and prompts are used.

I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or if you have a Claude Max 10x subscription.

Re: GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories

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Unfortunately if it was from a compromised extension this is going to be more justification for creating closed environments like what Google is doing with android and Apple has already done with iPhone.

In the age of LLMs, vetting can even be done in a CI/CD. What's the big deal?

Token use? Non-deterministic outcomes?

Re: GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories

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post #6

- Use Static analysis for GHA to catch security issues: https://github.com/zizmorcore/zizmor - set locally: pnpm config set minimum-release-age 4320 # 3 days in minutes https://pnpm.io/supply-chain-security for other package managers check: https://gist.github.com/mcollina/b294a6c39ee700d24073c0e5a4e... - add Socket Free Firewall when installing npm packages on CI https://docs.socket.dev/docs/socket-firewall-free#git…

UPD: disable auto-updates for extensions in VS Code/Cursor!

Re: GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories

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post #139

Pre-AI, having access to code (e.g. if it leaked or even just open source) could allow hackers to more easily discover exploits. I wonder if that threat is now much more severe in the age of AI. Thankfully GitHub have probably themselves run their code through many AI security tools so any vulnerabilities would have already been found and patched. Hopefully.

I just had a disturbing thought. What if the LLM providers start blocklisting certain codebases? “I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that. This codebase has been identified as proprietary.”

Oh! That looks like a nail to me... why not check all file hashes against a CP database? That database could be maintained by, well, some government agency, but don't worry about it, it's gonna be super secure and there's no abuse potential or something at all!

Re: GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories

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post #259

If you work at github can you see everyone's private repos?

Well yeah, they need that to do maintenance work. They can see my company's private repos from our enterprise contract, so they can absolutely see your personal ones.

Your support people seeing your account and your repos is different from arbitrary support people seeing everyone's private repos.

Re: GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories

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Where is this list from?

Everytime it is BreachForums: https://breached.st/threads/internal-github-source-code.8739...

What is the hell is muslims-of-github.tar.gz ?! I guess nebula is the new PRISM. What is `newly-packaged-malware` ?!

I'm sorry for Sophie.

Re: GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories

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post #247

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I’m in a location where Apple Maps is significantly better than Google’s. So I’m unsure if you mean ”it’s Apple Maps meme bad” or if you just mean ”it’s rather meh, could be better, could be worse”.

I think bad: https://youtu.be/tVq1wgIN62E?is=GOTAfXSie70pln-W

> When I'm typing, there's a delay, then all the letters pop up at once. You took a good phone, and you made it all shitty. It pissed me off.

Re: GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories

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> they got some alert that the app was attempting to access browser credentials :( That sounds pretty specific.

According to the email I initially received for this alert, zed.exe was attempting to access its own folder within the AppData directory. Nothing more normal than that, no? No idea how that related to what I was told by the sec people shortly afterwards.

Possibly an abundance of caution based on the behavior in the other comments?
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