We Took over ChatGPT Accounts

(parameter.ai)

52 points | by armcat 2 hours ago

8 comments

  • usernametaken29 55 minutes ago
    Now what about those millions of lines of code? Wasn’t the agent swarm supposed to take care of it? All jokes aside this is exactly what happens as you build larger monoliths, system complexity and bug surface increases logarithmically… so in all seriousness you want to reduce LOC as much as possible. Maybe this can teach OpenAI a lesson to produce software that’s correct and adhere to established engineering standards over sensationalised “we built so much code” promotional material.
    • torben-friis 32 minutes ago
      Did you mean exponentially? Logarithmic increase doesn't sound too bad.
    • Pannoniae 42 minutes ago
      it's not like microservices fare better, when you introduce them, you've traded a hard problem for a hard problem and distributed computing...
      • wg0 17 minutes ago
        Our industry has wasted hundreds of billions of dollars on this shit show called Microservices.

        99.9% of shops need a monolith with same monolith having entry points for background workers and crons.

    • elendilm 34 minutes ago
      Reducing attack surface is a lesson for everyone. Newcomers are impressed by massive piles of code.

      Seasoned developers are unimpressed, or even disgusted, by the same massive piles of code.

  • yellow_lead 42 minutes ago
    > OpenAI confirmed both frontends rejected the reported messages, resolved the issue, and awarded a total bounty of $5,000.

    It requires the user to click a link. But I still find this bounty very low. Others may not report them if such a small bounty is given.

    • dist-epoch 18 minutes ago
      This is a pet peeve of tptacek:

      > server-side vulnerabilities are worth very little, because they quickly get patched.

  • jareklupinski 1 hour ago
    > able to take over anyone's account simply by sending them a link

    dont click links people

    that'll be $500k for the security training pls

    • kro 34 minutes ago
      If they or their company use email "security" software that "scans" all links it's not necessarily the users fault / they don't in fact click. The mail is auto-confirmed the second it hits the inbox.

      We've had to change our registration confirmation mails too recently to not confirm on GET only, but with another form - in hindsight it was stupid before but many services do that.

    • TobTobXX 40 minutes ago
      ... says IT and then it sets Outlook to mangle link to abominations like [0]. "Check if the preview shows something different or suspicious."

      [0]: https://che01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A...

    • dist-epoch 23 minutes ago
      I wanted to check your website from your profile, but then I remembered your advice. Thanks!, dodged a potential bullet
    • bossyTeacher 1 hour ago
      Also many emails from tech companies today:

      - "sign in via one-time code."

      - "Click here to see our latest update".

    • Razengan 47 minutes ago
      Thanks! Here, click on this link to get paid
    • gib444 29 minutes ago
      [dead]
  • dumberquestions 1 hour ago
    Does no one write their own blogs anymore?
    • zx8080 46 minutes ago
      For who?
      • loveparade 38 minutes ago
        For the LLMs so they get new training data
    • lifeisloving 46 minutes ago
      This one is particularly bad, like they probably made $7500 (not much tbh) for p1, atleast spend a few hours to write the blog post.
  • lxgr 1 hour ago
    Oof. Together with the fact that it's possible to remotely access the file system (!) of computers ever having started a "Work" chat in the ChatGPT desktop app [1], this seems pretty bad.

    [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078284

  • atrokhymchuk 38 minutes ago
    if only they had some sort of cybersecurity state of the art thing...
  • marwaneet 40 minutes ago
    Another classic OAuth implementation failure. Mismanaging the state parameter or leaking tokens via referer headers in redirects is Security 101. Wild to see this in a production environment of this scale.
    • steve1977 37 minutes ago
      Production scale is not production grade I guess...
  • 15o9o 2 hours ago
    we are getting to the point of “why have passwords?” Right? At some point soon we have to move to the honor system of just please don’t login as me?
    • dataviz1000 49 minutes ago
      > please don’t login as me

      Please don't drain my $6.5 billion in Dogecoin.