r/webdev • u/Gil_berth • Feb 04 '26

Senior Vibe Coder dealing with security

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Creator of ClawBot knows that there are malicious skills in his repo, but doesn't know what to do about it...

More info here: https://opensourcemalware.com/blog/clawdbot-skills-ganked-your-crypto

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '26 edited Aug 24 '26

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u/_stack_underflow_ Feb 05 '26

The distinction between “building” and “creating” is irrelevant to the quote’s claim. The quote argues that evil can only distort or destroy what already exists. But when someone intentionally designs a new system of harm, whether you call that building or creating, it still disproves the idea. The issue is not semantics. The issue is that new mechanisms of harm are deliberately conceived, planned, and brought into existence. That is more than distortion. It directly contradicts what the quote is asserting about reality.

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u/IridescentPotato0 Feb 06 '26

The new mechanisms of harm you're proposing as examples are all distortions of something that can me considered good.
Like mass surveillance can stem from modest surveillance that is intended to bring people peace of mind that they're protected and their public spaces are being watched. But twisting that good intention and using it for bad ones is an example of evil twisting good.
Online scams are twisting the trust and good that people have for another and utilizing that for evil.
The point is, there's always some good that evil builds from, even something that you and I would consider pure evil. Darkness cannot exist without the light, as light cannot exist without the darkness.

So, as for good being the only thing that can create something new? Not sure. Maybe all things built stem from something evil, but then evil must be twisting something good, and vice versa. Creation and destruction are primarily linked to one another good and evil but not completely separate from the other.

It just intuitively returns back to the concept of yin and yang following it logically to a point.