They probably paid a million for this vibe coded app. I am confident that I could somehow make this.
Super common here in Germany that sensitive data is handled via crappy apps that essentially have backdoors.
If you break them and report the bug you can be prosecuted under some hacking paragraph.
If you break them and report the bug you can be prosecuted under some hacking paragraph.
The old shoot the messenger approach!
We’ve had some high profile examples in the US too. Like this one, from 2021. A professor was investigated by governor Mike Parson of Missouri, for literally using View Page Source in a browser. And reporting a major vulnerability in good faith. I linked Parson’s wikipedia page, because he deserves his ridicule. Not for his ignorance! Many are ignorant of how the web works. That’s OK. He deserves ridicule for how he handled the episode. For dragging the professor’s name through the mud, who had only tried to help.
In the end, the governor received much ridicule. The investgation was dropped.
Merkels famous quote (“Das Internet ist für uns alle Neuland” - “The internet is new ground for all of us”) still holds true in 2026 lol. Literal third world countries are more advanced when it comes to digitization and stuff lol.
Well, im glad its opensource
Half-expecting it to become closed source ‘to prevent people from hacking it so easily’ as a result of the embarrassment of this sort of thing.
Step 1: open source a broken software that was vibe coded in 5 min
Step 2: wait for the internet to fix it
Step 3: profitisn’t it the same everywhere now?
- CEO vibes code some shit that gets some attention
- Sends it your way
- Can you make this production quality?
At least fucking send me the prompts so I understand what you wanted to express instead of me reverse engineering this shit for days
I know this impossible because of that one guy who wants EU app dev on their resume, but the OS devs need to collectively say fuck you and let the shit hit the fan
because of that one guy who wants EU app dev on their resume,
this is the kind of people I despise and who I think deserve eternity in hellfire, but also deserve being spit in the face by all their friends and family
They should be tied in a sack with a cat, a monkey, and a goose, and the whole thing chucked in the river.
How about we don’t phantasize about lynching? Although I get the sentiment, but that’s going too far.
And this is government software handling sensitive information. I thought people were required to have higher qualifications and good security knowledge to develop software there, we are cooked if this is the norm.
The only way they will get the message is if there is a concerted white hat campaign targeting EU lawmakers to show them the error of their ways. If they refuse to see, then some black hats need to make them feel it.
