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Comment by neathack | original | Lovable apps expose passport details and more than 200K private messages
[−]neathack · 2026-11-14 Sat 19:23 UTC · link
What do you mean? This has been disclosed to, and the full dataset has been shared with, Lovable.
[−]jacquesm · 2026-11-14 Sat 19:29 UTC · link
What I mean is: you knew it worked before you went and pulled more data, you could have stopped after the first two records, why pull more than you needed to prove that it was possible?
[−]neathack · 2026-11-14 Sat 19:37 UTC · link
We retrieved only enough data to determine whether it was privacy-sensitive, which could not be reliably assessed from just two records. We did not download any more than that.

Supabase tables also use pagination, and we never downloaded more than the first page.

[−]jacquesm · 2026-11-14 Sat 19:39 UTC · link
You probably should not have done that. It's one thing to determine that a hole exists, an entirely different one to exploit it to the point that you can do damage assessment on the target.
[−]coldtea · 2026-11-14 Sat 19:50 UTC · link
Would you prefer someone that didn't intent to report but to exploit the data downloaded everything and the company and you knew fuck all about it?
[−]Bengalilol · 2026-11-14 Sat 20:42 UTC · link
So I can, maybe, understand your posture: what are your ties to Lovable?
[−]jchanimal · 2026-11-14 Sat 21:46 UTC · link
I may not be the intended audience, but as the author of a similar system having a benchmark like this of what user behavior can result in when it’s unconstrained is helpful for my safety evals. So in an indirect way, you’re making future platforms more secure by sharing this.
[−]neathack · 2026-11-14 Sat 21:57 UTC · link
That's great to hear!