INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
"A threshold has been reached
We are effectively being DDoSed
If we could, we would charge them for this waste of our time," wrote Daniel Stenberg, original author and lead of the curl project, on
LinkedIn this week.Curl (cURL in some realms), which turned 25 years old in 2023, is an essential command-line tool and library for
interacting with Internet resources
The open source project receives bug reports and security issues through many channels, including HackerOne, a reporting service that helps
companies manage vulnerability reporting and bug bounties
HackerOne has fervently taken to AI tools in recent years
"One platform, dual force: Human minds + AI power," the firm's home page reads.Stenberg, saying that he's "had it" and is "putting my foot
down on this craziness," suggested that every suspected AI-generated HackerOne report will have its reporter asked to verify if they used AI
to find the problem or generate the submission
If a report is deemed "AI slop," the reporter will be banned
"We still have not seen a single valid security report done with AI help," Stenberg wrote.Read full articleComments
