[mrkeen]

Daniel Stenberg has been vocal the last few months on Mastodon about being overwhelmed by false security issues submitted to the curl project.

So much so that he had to eventually close the bug bounty program.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/26/the-end-of-the-curl-b...

[tptacek]

We're discussing a project led by actual vulnerability researchers, not random people in Indonesia hoping to score $50 by cajoling maintainers about atyle nits.

[malfist]

Vulnerability researches with a vested interest in making LLMs valuable. The difference isn't meaningful

[nextaccountic]

> in Indonesia

That's uncalled for.. there's actual security researches in Indonesia and other countries you could use to exemplify this

[PunchyHamster]

I'm not sure the gap between the two is all that wide

[ath3nd]

Yep, very meaningful difference indeed. It's not like professionals have ever have had a vested interest to spread misinformation to shill a product.

It's not like there were ads with real doctors recommending Camel cigarettes.

It's not like the browser "breakthrough" recently which pulled 300 OSS dependencies together, removed attribution and called the mess "working".

The desperation of the Samas, Musks, Satyas and Anthropics of this world and their fanbase to paint marginal 0.0001337% improvements in a gamed SWE ranking as something worth any attention is just delicious. Opus 4.6? Please, more like Opus 4.5.0.2-RC. All I hear is the sound of a bubble going pop. Delightful.

[pityJuke]

Daniel is a smart man. He's been frustrated by slop, but he has equally accepted [0] AI-derived bug submissions from people who know what they are doing.

I would imagine Anthropic are the latter type of individual.

[0]: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/115241241075258997

[catwell]

Not only that, he's very enthusiastic about AI analyzers such as ZeroPath and AISLE.

He's written about it here: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/10/10/a-new-breed-of-analyz... and talked about it in his keynote at FOSDEM - which I attended - last Sunday (https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/B7YKQ7-oss-in-spite-o...).