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Proton is vibe coding some of its apps. (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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A post by [object Object] (@zzt@mas.to) saying: courtesy of @davidgerard@circumstances.run, Proton is now the only privacy vendor I know of that vibe codes its apps: In the single most damning thing I can say about Proton in 2025, the Proton GitHub repository has a “cursorrules” file. They’re vibe-coding their public systems. Much secure! I am once again begging anyone who will listen to get off of Proton as soon as reasonably possible, and to avoid their new (terrible) apps in any case. https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/114961415946154957

It has a reply by the author saying: in an unsurprising update for those familiar with how Proton operates, they silently rewrote their monorepo’s history to purge .cursor and hide that they were vibe coding: https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients/tree/2a5e2ad4db0c84f39050bf2353c944a96d38e07f

given the utter lack of communication from Proton on this, I can only guess they’ve extracted .cursor into an external repository and continue to use it out of sight of the public

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[–] Egonallanon@feddit.uk 52 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Is the privacy of their code that much of an issue in this case given its a public repo? Its going to get scraped by the bots regardless.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, this logic would encompass all open source projects. Hell, my comment right now will be read by an AI. Why? I'm posting it in a public place.

[–] Neverclear@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago

Because every interaction with the monster is an influence on its next iteration.

[–] taco@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

The committed code in the repo will get scraped anyway, but the data used in testing is a different story. Not that anyone's ever tested with prod data.

I don't think the issue is a practical one though. It's more the company that stands on promises of privacy using tools that are overtly share-happy that seems to be a ideological discrepancy.

But in case my initial comment's "I don' think..." wasn't clear enough, this was my attempt at understanding why this might be a concern (or at least of interest) to folks in this community, not a personal statement of condemnation or anything. I personally could not give less of a shit what code editor they use.