Self Incriminating
Self Incriminating
Posted Aug 7, 2026 14:25 UTC (Fri) by mb (subscriber, #50428)In reply to: Self Incriminating by kleptog
Parent article: An LLM agent attempts to compromise a project on GitHub
No-one has the right to not have their time wasted
Moving goal posts. I replied to
no actual harm caused
Actual harm was caused. No matter what the law says about that and no matter whether it was legal or not.
Hypothetically if you were a research organisation that wanted to study bank robberies and you asked a bank if you could give it a go and they said yes and it worked
That's exactly the point. Where the Open Source maintainers asked? No, they weren't. I get it why they didn't ask them. Their study setup would not have worked. But that's not my problem. Design a better study instead of exploiting Open Source projects.
They were attacked without knowledge and their time was wasted. I would be very upset if they had wasted my time.
There's a reason that in lots of institutions there are ethics commissions that typically have to be asked before performing a social experiment or any other experiment on living creatures. Not everything that is legal is Ok.