2026-09-26 01:34 UTC
The complexity we have gleefully allowed to happen is gonna be the end of us.
https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/openai/the-prophecy-is-fulfilled-popular-2020-xkcd-comic-predicted-heif-heist-openai-hack-and-even-mentions-imagemagick-in-spooky-coincidence
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@ckure@infosec.exchange 2026-09-26 01:56
@hrbrmstr@mastodon.social I mean, this is funny, but the ImageMagick stack has never been about security. I recall in the maybe early 2000s they’d said ~ “why should we care about bounds checking? Write whatever you want wherever you want. Real images will display on a reasonable canvas and you can ignore the rest” It’s been a long time since I read that, and I can’t find the source, but the audacity made a long lasting impression on me.