I don’t want to sound like a doomer but I really thing this type of things will be more common in the future, with more AI code inside every system big or small in the world.
Doesn’t have to be malicious if you’ve had AI write slop code for you for months now. Probably done irreversible damage by now.
It’s almost like software systems and software engineering is complex, non-trivial or something…
So there are only a few options here:
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Microsoft is lying, and this is an attack
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They aren’t lying, and this just shows their infrastucture is dogshit.
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They aren’t lying, and someone internal fucked up so bad it took out multiple countries e-mail
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They are lying, it’s an attack, but it’s from their own AI agents
None of those options are a good look for Microsoft.
My sources, a few people at work who have multiple connections and contacts at other tech companies and regularly attends various conferences, said this was a hack. Did not specify source, so 1 or 4.
- It was dns
In order to solve this problem, we’ve replaced DNS with AI. What was previously a DNS server is now a webserver that runs a GraphQL endpoint that has one query and that one query has one parameter called “prompt”. It accepts prompts, which are strings of the form “Chat, what IP Address should I connect to if I wanted to talk to facebook.com”
For security you can also ask it “Chat, what IP Address should I connect to if I wanted to talk to facebook.com, and what public key should I use”
It should be highly accurate, because it was trained on a scraped copy of all the domain names we could find in March of 2024. You pay us for it in tokens.
This is so fucked up and evil that I can only conclude that you’ve been at Microsoft’s mercy before or you are actually a Microsoft employee who is currently bored because your 5 PMs can’t breathe down your neck as your company has ground to a halt
I made a post in the privacy community about a bad DNS leak for NextDNS users. Got a few servers ordered days ago for redundant DNS self hosting. Planning on two Pi holes with Unbound.
How do you think it was a DNS hack? I’ve been thinking the two issues were not coincidentally within days of each other, but maybe I’m wrong.
It was more a joke about the haiku.
(My version is still floating around the internet! Please feel free to swipe this!)
Must be
It isnʻt DNS.
It cant be DNS.
There is no way its DNS.
It was DNS.
Maybe the attackers were so good, they couldn’t tell
Maybe the real attackers were the vibe-coded edits we made along the way
I wonder if it is just a coincidence that it happens right in the wake of the Nvidia scandal.
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So, incompetence then?
AI coding tech debt strikes again
4Chan is claiming it’s something to do with the FBI.
Why would anyone trust anything from 4chan? That site is a cesspool of hatred and lies. They’re proud of it.
Are you stupid? 4chan is the greatest hacker of the 21st century, and most likely the leader of antifa, ya dummy.
Well, if isn’t 4chan themselves. I wondered when we’d finally meet.
Slop vibe-code in action
Oh good, it’s not an attack, just plain old incompetence. That’s definitely better.
I’m guessing a vibe coded update got pushed to production
