Niraj Dholakia

Developer 🎓 | Traveller 🛫 | Movie buff 🎬 | Smartphonegrapher 📷 | Bibliophile 📚

[Niraj Dholakia @NiRaJ316]

@JesusSoDame PROMPT

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Software horror: litellm PyPI supply chain attack.

Simple `pip install litellm` was enough to exfiltrate SSH keys, AWS/GCP/Azure creds, Kubernetes configs, git credentials, env vars (all your API keys), shell history, crypto wallets, SSL private keys, CI/CD secrets, database passwords.

LiteLLM itself has 97 million downloads per month which is already terrible, but much worse, the contagion spreads to any project that depends on litellm. For example, if you did `pip install dspy` (which depended on litellm>=1.64.0), you'd also be pwnd. Same for any other large project that depended on litellm.

Afaict the poisoned version was up for only less than ~1 hour. The attack had a bug which led to its discovery - Callum McMahon was using an MCP plugin inside Cursor that pulled in litellm as a transitive dependency. When litellm 1.82.8 installed, their machine ran out of RAM and crashed. So if the attacker didn't vibe code this attack it could have been undetected for many days or weeks.

Supply chain attacks like this are basically the scariest thing imaginable in modern software. Every time you install any depedency you could be pulling in a poisoned package anywhere deep inside its entire depedency tree. This is especially risky with large projects that might have lots and lots of dependencies. The credentials that do get stolen in each attack can then be used to take over more accounts and compromise more packages.

Classical software engineering would have you believe that dependencies are good (we're building pyramids from bricks), but imo this has to be re-evaluated, and it's why I've been so growingly averse to them, preferring to use LLMs to "yoink" functionality when it's simple enough and possible.

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@TommiPedruzzi system

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@TommiPedruzzi Easy

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@Mho_23 mentor

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@Zephyr_hg ideas

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@aryanXmahajan mcp

[Unbox Therapy @UnboxTherapy]

Apologies for the delay. Here's the official @oneplus Nord giveaway tweet. Just Re-Tweet this tweet and make sure you're following @UnboxTherapy for your chance to win. Good luck!

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

People first, people always.

Glad that path-breaking decisions were taken in the Cabinet, the first in this tenure. Hardworking farmers and industrious traders will benefit greatly due to these decisions.

The decisions will enhance dignity and empowerment of several Indians.

[Niraj Dholakia @NiRaJ316]

@narendramodi #IndiaWins #NamoAgain

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

सबका साथ + सबका विकास + सबका विश्वा�� = विजयी भारत

Together we grow.

Together we prosper.

Together we will build a strong and inclusive India.

India wins yet again! #VijayiBharat

[Niraj Dholakia @NiRaJ316]

Is it possible? #GamesOfThrones #GoT #Season8 #Reshoot #DoesntHurtToTry #HBO #Change
HBO: Remake Game of Thrones Season 8 with competent writers. https://t.co/4T08z1mBsJ via @Change

[GitHub @github]

Your code. Your packages. One login.
Meet GitHub Package Registry 🎁

Publish public or private packages next to your source code, easily.
https://t.co/0I3ygWxTmK

[Niraj Dholakia @NiRaJ316]

Detective Pikachu Movie is a fun entertainer that does not disappoint! #DetetivePikachu #DetectivePikachuMovie #worthit #MovieReview #PikaPika

[Niraj Dholakia @NiRaJ316]

"Hello World!" #FirstTweet #7YearsLater #NeverTooLate

[Niraj Dholakia @NiRaJ316]

Join me and nominate Idyllic Software for the Biggest Social Impact 2012 Crunchie! http://t.co/Cbcm276k #crunchies

[Idyllic Software @idyllicsoftware]

#Entrepreneurship - An in-extinguished desire without a real plan or a road map.

[Idyllic Software @idyllicsoftware]

The 25 Best Tech Companies To Work For In 2012 - http://t.co/tSvREN6s. Crap we were 26th in the list :-)

[Idyllic Software @idyllicsoftware]

How do you estimate for an Agile project in fixed bids? Best practices, recommendations, ideas? #startup

[Niraj Dholakia @NiRaJ316]

in the process of learning jQuery with @TutsPremium: http://t.co/EmtCpSR5