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This garbage actually got over 900 upvotes. Crazy.

I already suspected it was AI written based in the super-cringe title, and a cursory look at the content confirmed my suspicion. Cookie-cutter basic ai writing as it gets.

Also in the email towards the organization. Makes it sound as condescending "let me dumb it down for you to key points" to the receiver of the email as, well, as LLMs are. Bit off-putting and the story itself is also common to the point of trite. Heck, nothing even ended up happening in this case. No lawyer is mentioned outside of the title, no police complaint was filed, no civil case started, just the three emails saying he should agree to not talk about this. Scary as those demands can be (I have been at the butt end of such things as well, and every time I wish I had used Tor instead of a CIOT-traceable IP address as soon as my "huh, that's odd system behavior"-senses go off. Responsible disclosure just gives you grey hairs in the 10% of cases that respond like this, even if so far 0% actually filed a police complaint or court case)

So strange that I have to scroll this far to find mention of AI writing. It's clearly AI, but apparently now even tech people get fooled not just boomers on Facebook. They don't name the company and the whole story is just way too perfect, and cookie cutter... If you're a human reading this, consider that the comments here may also be AI. Dead Internet and all..

Presuming nobody had found this exploit previously, it actually is a zero-day.

A performative display of performative anti-AI purism.