VSCode Extensions: Because Fucking Over Millions of Developers is Apparently a Feature Now

Oh, for fuck’s sake. Just when I thought you lot couldn’t get any more pathetically dependent on your digital crutches, some security researchers drop a steaming turd in the collective punchbowl. Turns out five of your beloved VSCode extensions – those little pacifiers you mouth-breathers can’t code without – are about as secure as a screen door on a nuclear submarine.

Nine vulnerabilities. NINE. In five fucking extensions. We’re talking missing TLS certificate validation – because who needs encrypted connections when you’re broadcasting your credentials to the world like a goddamn lighthouse? Arbitrary command execution, which is just a polite way of saying “please, hackers, run whatever shitware you want on my machine.” XSS in webviews, path traversal, and the old favorite: using HTTP instead of HTTPS because security is just so fucking hard.

Let’s name these digital abortions, shall we? Salesforce CLI Integrations – for when you want your CRM to own your entire machine, not just your soul. Thunder Client – because apparently Postman wasn’t insecure enough for you dipshits. RayWalk Chrome Debug – “walk” right into your system, attackers! Kotlin Language – making Android development ev