No Evidence, Just Vibes: Developer Jokes About 'Vibe Security'
zetalyrae · x · 2026-08-04
A developer jokingly coined the term "vibe security" to describe the phenomenon of being completely confident—without any actual evidence—that widely used open-source libraries (like the text shaping library harfbuzz) must have critical security vulnerabilities frequently exploited by nation-state actors, purely based on a gut feeling.
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