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New comment by isidorn in "Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace"

isidorn — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 13:00:22 +0000

Thank you. We will security audit this extension today and take action if needed.

GitHub Copilot agent mode (preview)

isidorn — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:54:30 +0000

Article URL: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2025/02/24/introducing-copilot-agent-mode

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43182849

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by isidorn in "Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace"

isidorn — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:42:14 +0000

Thank you for letting us know. We are investigating.

New comment by isidorn in "Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace"

isidorn — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 08:37:40 +0000

Thanks. Our security researchers will review this today and we might take it down. We reached out to the new author and he does not have malicious intent, and agreed that we just take down the new extension if we see something is off.

New comment by isidorn in "Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace"

isidorn — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 08:21:26 +0000

The publisher Equinusocio was banned.

New comment by isidorn in "Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace"

isidorn — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 08:20:40 +0000

I am in European time and I do not know what happened on that post (since I was sleeping). I assume it were some heated arguments between maintainer and community about license/copyrights/open source maintenance.

New comment by isidorn in "Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace"

isidorn — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 08:15:09 +0000

This is tracked in this feature request https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/52116

We do not plan to add a permission model in the next 6 months.

New comment by isidorn in "Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace"

isidorn — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 08:10:35 +0000

Thanks for flagging it. Our security researchers will analize it and based on their findings we might remove this one as well.

New comment by isidorn in "Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace"

isidorn — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 07:40:44 +0000

Hi - Isidor here from the VS Code team.

A member of the community did a deep security analysis of the extension and found multiple red flags that indicate malicious intent and reported this to us. Our security researchers at Microsoft confirmed this claims and found additional suspicious code.

We banned the publisher from the VS Marketplace and removed all of their extensions and uninstalled from all VS Code instances that have this extension running. For clarity - the removal had nothing to do about copyright/licenses, only about potential malicious intent.

Expect an announcement here with more details soon https://github.com/microsoft/vsmarketplace/

As a reminder, the VS Marketplace continuously invests in security. And more about extension runtime trust can be found in this article https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/extension-runtime-...

Thank you!

New comment by isidorn in "GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens"

isidorn — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 18:50:00 +0000

Sorry about that. Can you switch to copilot chat pre-release extension. Should be a big button "switch to pre-release".

We are tracking this issue here https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/239836

New comment by isidorn in "GitHub Copilot Extensions are all you need"

isidorn — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 20:04:12 +0000

Thanks for pointing out. My mistake, will fix.

New comment by isidorn in "Pursuit of "Wicked Smartness" in VS Code"

isidorn — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 09:15:58 +0000

Copilot chat, agents, speech and convenient AI features in VS Code.

Pursuit of "Wicked Smartness" in VS Code

isidorn — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 09:15:58 +0000

Article URL: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2023/11/13/vscode-copilot-smarter

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38260899

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by isidorn in "Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?"

isidorn — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 09:26:32 +0000

Hi,

My name is Isidor and I work on VS Code. Here's some hopefully useful advice:

* Join a screen reader mailing list and get to know the commnity: Program-L is the name of the general list and there is one list for Orca Screen Reader in case you are a Linux user

We try hard to make VS Code accessible so in case you decide to use VS Code:

* We have a gitter channel for accessibility which you can join https://gitter.im/Microsoft/vscode-a11y

* You can file issues and provide feedback as we try to improve continously https://github.com/microsoft/vscode

* Feel free to ping me @isidorn on either of those or on Twitter. And let me know if we can help more.

I wish you all the best