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mday-edamameon Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept

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mday-edamameon Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept

On some level the feeling matters more than the reality, past a certain survival threshold.

mday-edamameon I quit. The clankers won

True, but the tools make the default behavior so tempting.

I have a friend who uses Google Maps to find places, then memorizes the route there and closes the app to navigate because he wants to build a better mental map of our city. Meanwhile, I just check the app every five seconds like a dummy, and my hippocampus stays small.

mday-edamameon Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan

There's another element to the solution here: runtime behavioral analysis. No matter how completely the maintainer's credentials are compromised, no matter how well the malware is concealed, it still has to act like malware (in the case of LiteLLM, credential harvesting, in this case a remote-access Trojan). It's possible to detect the behavior, rather than relying on supply-chain integrity.

We built a free tool that runs local behavior analysis on your machine, it's caught every supply-chain attack in the last couple weeks: https://www.producthunt.com/products/axios-litellm-detector