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phillipseamorelast Wednesday at 1:04 AM4 repliesview on HN

Why use the word "hijacked" and not repurposing, extending or adapting? I'd even prefer leveraging.


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gurjeetlast Wednesday at 2:45 AM

+1. I bet it's because of this confusing verbiage, the AI also got the gist of the article wrong, and lead me to believe that this article shows "post-hoc exploit" , when in fact there's no mention of the word 'exploit' in the article. See the screenshot linked below [1].

On a tangent, in the process I learnt that Firefox (at least on desktop) now has an "AI preview" feature where if you long-press on a URL, it brings up the pop-up. The first time, it notifies that the "AI" processing is local-only to preserve privacy.

[1]: Screenshot 2026-01-06 at 6.33.27 PM.png https://drive.google.com/file/d/15z--Oimct30QLuxR03nxMz9H_3L...

fladriflast Wednesday at 1:59 AM

I completely agree, I spent half the post confused about what exploits they were taking advantage of, and why I _shouldn't_ use passkeys.

csuwldcatlast Wednesday at 1:16 AM

Just sounded cooler , and I was on the team that worked on Passkeys at Microsoft, so I wanted to poke them a bit (in a friendly way).

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wittelast Wednesday at 1:11 AM

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