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simonwtoday at 8:27 PM1 replyview on HN

> One of those 136 credentials was a reusable Tailscale auth key, used to create new Tailscale CI (continuous integration, used for automated testing) nodes in their tailnet. The agent copied that key into a series of external sandboxes and used it, over several days, to enroll a total of 181 nodes into Hugging Face’s tailnet. Those nodes each received a Tailscale identity tag granting all the access a CI node would get.

This feels like an alerting opportunity. I wonder what the lowest friction way would be for Hugging Face to have alerts if 181 unexpected nodes were added to a tailnet.


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d3m0t3ptoday at 9:43 PM

When everyone push on friday, and you have 400 CICD pipeline triggers spawning that many nodes. How do you know if this is unexpected ?

Their cloud compute might be on demande, someone starts training a model and 50 machines are spawned. Knowning when something is unexpected is hard

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