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bingo-bongo on May 22, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: iTerm2 and AI Hype Overload

iTerm did have at least one rather serious data leaking bug in the past. It was introduced in a new feature and enabled by default.

People (or power users at least) tend to remember incidents like that. I don’t think it’s entirely “just because LLM’s”.

benced on May 22, 2024 [–]

I would find this persuasive if I could find a single mention of this bug in either of the GitLab threads or the original blog post.

Also, what was the bug?

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