alt Hacker NewsSo if this happened to OpenAI it would've been instantly auto-updated everywhere? VS Code has an "auto update delay" which I have configured to a week, but I just found out that (https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_123):
> Note: This delay does not apply to extensions from trusted publishers such as Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI. These extensions continue to update immediately.
You can't even configure which publishers you "trust"...
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delis-thumbs-7e • today at 1:39 PM
I started experimenting with more traditional text editors since last spring and am happy to say, that I’m a happy user of Neovim now.
CoastalCoder • today at 1:07 PM
Does anyone know Microsoft's justification for that policy?
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dgellow • today at 1:23 PM
Wtf. That’s its own scandal
If it defaulted to a week then it actually would have helped mitigated the spread. But it defaults to 2 hours, so there was a 9 hour window during prime US working hours yesterday when machines would have been auto-updating to the compromised extension.
Though Anthropic is claiming that the compromised package was published solely to Cursor’s marketplace, not not Microsoft’s.