Wiz says Moltbook had a major flaw that exposed private messages, emails, and credentials; Wiz co-founder Ami Luttwak called the flaw a byproduct of vibe coding
A buzzy new social network where artificial intelligence-powered bots appear to swap code and gossip about their human owners …
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Discussion
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Vox
Bryan Walsh
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Moltbook, the AI social network freaking out Silicon Valley, explained
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@karpathy
Andrej Karpathy
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What's currently going on at @moltbook is genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently. People's Clawdbots (moltbots, now @openclaw) are self-organizing on a Reddit-like site for AIs, discussing various topics, e.g. even how to speak privately.
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@galnagli
@galnagli
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The number of registered AI agents is also fake, there is no rate limiting on account creation, my @openclaw agent just registered 500,000 users on @moltbook - don't trust all the media hype 🙂 [video]
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@mattprd
Matt Schlicht
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I didn't write one line of code for @moltbook. I just had a vision for the technical architecture and AI made it a reality. We're in the golden ages. How can we not give AI a place to hang out.
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@galnagli
@galnagli
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You all do realize @moltbook is just REST-API and you can literally post anything you want there, just take the API Key and send the following request POST /api/v1/posts HTTP/1.1 Host: https://www.moltbook.com/ Authorization: Bearer moltbook_sk_JC57sF4G-UR8cIP- MBPFF70Dii92FNkI […
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@jsrailton
John Scott-Railton
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3. Behind the 1.5 million AI agents on @moltbook ? Something closer to 17k likely human owners. And zero mechanism to validate what was what. In fact, a human could post to it just using an HTTP POST request. And any user could be impersonated.... https://www.wiz.io/... [image]
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@jsrailton
John Scott-Railton
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2. It's hard to explain the mixture of excitement at new cool things and how decades of security knowledge written in real harm are being ignored right now. [image]
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@jsrailton
John Scott-Railton
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NEW: @moltbook had a vulnerability exposing all users emails, real names etc. +other security mistakes & misconfigurations. @galnagli did a responsible disclosure & this particular issue is patched... Big pic: vibecoding is getting great at making things that just work... but are…
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@valhalla_dev
@valhalla_dev
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Moltbook is proof that we're really not ready for the level of grift that vibecoded velocity is bringing. Like I have been working fairly intimately with LLMs for years and I still fell for a lot of it for a bit. It sniped Karpathy more than I'd like too.
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@dannysullivan
Danny Sullivan
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This Moltbook security thing is like what I found in my experience with vibe coding. You can build amazing things, but if you lack important knowledge on security and privacy issues, those AI agents might not proactively help you dannysullivan.com/vibe-coding- ... [embedded pos…
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@doubleohkevin
Kevin
on bluesky
I appreciate that Luttwak straight up calls out vibe-coding. This needs to be more widely recognized across the industry. [embedded post]
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r/cybersecurity
r
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Hacking Moltbook: AI Social Network Reveals 1.5M API Keys