Comment by jjcm
2 days ago
Some do, some don't.
The reality is there are some of us who truly just don't care. The convenience outweighs the negative. Yesterday I told an agent, "here's my api key and my root password - do it for me". Privacy has long since been dead, but at least for myself opsec for personal work is too.
> Privacy has long since been dead, but at least for myself opsec for personal work is too.
Hacker News in 2026.
Paranoia is justified if it actually serves some purpose. Staying paralyzed and not doing anything because Someone Is Reading Your Data is not serving much of anything. Hint: those Someones have better things to do. LLM vendors really don't care about your bank statements, and if they were ever in a position to look, they'd prefer not to have them, as it just creates legal and reputational risks for them.
> as it just creates legal and reputational risks for them.
Unfortunately I laughed reading this as there is never neither reputation nor legal consequences in the US of A. They can leak your entire life into my console including every account and every password you have and all PII of your entire family and literally nothing would happen… everything is stored somewhere and eventually will be used when “growth” is needed. some meaningless fines will be paid here and there but those bank statements will make their way to myriad of business that would drool to see them
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If you think people not using a tool released yesterday are staying paralyzed you must be either working for Anthropic or an enthusiastic follower, in both cases your opinion is not valid. None of this is something that is revolutionary and People have created trillion dollar companies without Claude Max
They somehow have to make big money, so it's just a matter of time until they will sell services to others, based on your personal data. And they probably have some clause in their contracts where you give them the right doing it.
You don't remember when people were generating private keys and tokens using github copilot in the early versions? I'm not sure if they ever completely fixed the issue, but it was a bit scary.
I am genuinely confused by this comment, given the intensity of disregard/ignorance/bad-faith.
I mean we had these before in other very similar topics regarding e.g. Snowden leaks but really a lot of things. So.. uh..
The wording is just so on the nose I'm refusing to believe that this was written in good faith by a real person. Good engagement bait tho.
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> The convenience outweighs the negative. Yesterday I told an agent, "here's my api key and my root password - do it for me".
Does the security team at your company know you're doing this?
Security as a whole is inconvenient. That doesn't mean we should ignore it.
So are you proud of yourself? Or why are you advertising your negligence?
"Move fast and break things"
I could spend an extra 5 minutes doing it "right" or I can get what I need done and have a 0.001% chance of there ever being a problem (since there are other security measure in place, like firewalls, api key rotation, etc.)
Even when security gaps are exploited, the fallout tends to be minimal. Companies that had their entire database of very sensitive information leaked are still growing users and at worst paid a tiny fine.
> Companies that had their entire database of very sensitive information leaked are still growing users and at worst paid a tiny fine.
Or end up bankrupt with criminal charges for CEO: https://yle.fi/a/74-20027665
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How many times do you have to roll the dice with .001% of disaster before it strikes? How often are you using the tool in this way?
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HN is now where I get my daily does[1] of apathetic indifference/go with the flow attitude.
[1] * dose
Sometimes I wonder how we got here. Data breaches everywhere, my 64gb of ram i7 workstation slowing to a crawl when opening a file browser, online privacy getting increasingly more impossible. Then I read HN and it all makes sense.
This keeps getting worse everyday, people are now bragging that they don't care about privacy. I know HN is supposed to for wannabe Founders, but you would still expect them to have some guardrails. No wonder everyday we hear about Data leaks.
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Is there a place where you get things that are greater and more noble than apathetic indifference/go with the flow attitude?
The folks at the Qubes OS forum care about security, unlike the vast majority of HN users nowadays:
https://forum.qubes-os.org/
> Privacy has long since been dead, but at least for myself opsec for personal work is too.
This is such an incredibly loser attitude and is why we can't have nice things.
I mean eventually, some adversarial entity will use this complete lack of defenses to hurt even the most privileged people in some way, so.
Unless of course they too turn to apathy and stop caring about being adversarial, but given the massive differences in quality of life between the west and the rest of the world, I'm not so sure about this.
That is of course a purely probabilistic thing and with that hard to grasp on an emotional level. It also might not happen during ones own lifetime, but that's where children would usually come in. Though, yeah, yeah, it's HN. I know I know.
> The reality is there are some of us who truly just don't care.
I would challenge that, with the same challenge I've heard about how Microsoft and Google reading your email. The challenge is "ok, so can you please log me in to your mailbox and let me read through it?"
It's not that people don't care, it's most that they've been led, or convinced, or manipulated, into failing to notice and realize this state of affairs.
That’s just sad.