May 26, 2025
Daniel Stenberg, the maintainer of Curl, discusses the increase in AI security reports that are wasting the time of maintainers. We discuss Curl's new policy of banning the bad actors while establishing some pretty sane AI usage guidelines. We chat about how this low-effort, high-impact abuse pattern is a denial-of-service attack on the curl project (and other open source projects too).
The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found
at
https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/2025-05-curl_vs_ai_with_daniel_stenberg/