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this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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A fun little software exercise with no real world uses at all: https://drewmayo.com/1000-words/about.html
Turns out that if you stuff the right shaped bytes into png image tEXt chunks (which don’t get compressed), the base64 encoded form of that image has sections that look like human readable text.
I'm apparently too ~~out of coffee~~ dumb to properly get the joke. What's the implications if some system parses the PNG text chunks in the same way it does the body of the email?
think LLM agentic software.
Ah, makes sense. My mind was going more towards actual security exploits, but... yeah. Makes sense.
Anyways, thank you Flere-Imsaho, I will never not love seeing your username on here.
I mean, at the rate the chucklefucks are going, a number of these things are actual security exploits
that it happens/works for a completely unhinged reason is almost a separate evaluation dimension in scoring
yes, sure, but in the sense of "social engineering the slopbot", not "there's a vulnerability in [x] which does not apply proper sanitation to non-body text content before evaluating it"
It is insane that people saw that social engineering is the number one security issue and were like “but what if we automated that?”