Daniel Stenberg

Daniel Stenberg is a Swedish Internet protocol expert and developer who has participated in and worked with Open Source for 30 years. He is most known for being the founder and lead developer of the curl project, one of the world's most widely used software components. He also participates in protocol development within the IETF and has authored books on curl, Open Source, HTTP/2, HTTP/3 and more. Daniel is employed by wolfSSL and is president of the European Open Source Academy.


Sessions

08-16
13:15
60 min
AI slop attacks on the curl project
Daniel Stenberg

In these days of "vibe coding" and chatbots, users ask AIs for help with everything. Asked to find security problems in Open Source projects, AI bots tell users something that sounds right. Reporting these "findings" wastes everyone's time and causes much frustration and fatigue. Daniel shows how this looks, how it creates a DDoS on projects and how totally beyond absurd this is. With examples and insights from the curl project.

When the autopilot fails - Risks and side effects of AI
HS 1/2