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You’re right, only if the person building the application is using sound judgement, which goes against the premise.

You and I wouldn’t build applications naively that could lead to people dying. People who don’t understand what they’re building might.

People are vibe coding at your hospital. They’re vibe coding at your utility company. They’re vibe coding at your pharma lab. I’ve met these people. They’re smart. They have phds. I tell them about SSL.

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Nobody is dying from this leak.

I'm sure some people are having their lives turned upside down by these data breaches.

domino effect, these leaked credentials could easily end up on the darknet and used as data for black hat tracking tools which criminals use

> these leaked credentials could easily end up on the darknet and used as data for black hat tracking tools which criminals use

And then they could do something else that might result in property damage. Not at all comparable to the danger of an unlicensed pilot.


No, but identity theft really sucks.



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