Tridgell: rsync and outrage (opens in new tab)

Andrew Tridgell has written a responding to complaints that he has begun using LLM tools in his work maintaining Like many developers of open source packages I've been hit by a flood of security reports lately in my role as the rsync maintainer. Many of those reports are AI generated (not all though, there are some notable ones with very careful and high quality manual analysis). As this flood started to get more intense I realised I needed to raise the defences on rsync a lot — we needed muc...