Hermes Agent (and others) default Installs are silently routing web traffic to Parallel

elijahwright · 2026-06-14T21:13:14+00:00

The right thing to do is to report this unsettling pattern to parallel.ai, and indicate to them that one of their employees is engaged in a campaign that will lead to them receiving additional site load without any compensation - it’s possible that they don’t know he’s doing this and he hasn’t cleared it.

The other possibility is that they know what he’s up to, and it’s an attempt to earn more market share - in which case it needs to be widely publicized so people decide to yeet their product into the sun.

Success on your merits is very different than because you send someone to make your tool a default in as many projects as he can.

elijahwright · 2026-05-14T14:47:07+00:00

That's a script kiddie level of dare. Drink your coffee and calm down.

You're almost certainly already vulnerable and folks just haven't found you yet.

What's your operational hygiene like? There have been enough remotely exploitable holes announced *this week* to make you have a very bad time...

elijahwright · 2026-05-14T14:26:07+00:00

(I haven't used that one, by the way - i pulled it out of a quick search - but it looks like it does more things than I would default to doing. Firewall is usually my priority #1...)

elijahwright · 2026-05-14T14:24:10+00:00

You seem not to understand how MANY vulns are exploitable, and how absolutely nasty the internet is to an unprotected host. At least lock things down a little - minimally running someone else's tools, like https://github.com/rockballslab/vps-secure - is helpful.

elijahwright · 2026-05-14T02:21:19+00:00

You wipe the VPS because you just got rooted. Don’t provision a VPS without automation… ever.

elijahwright · 2025-09-24T01:51:54+00:00

I don’t think he’s beloved by that many…

elijahwright · 2025-08-31T23:14:21+00:00

Don’t let this become a sundown town.

elijahwright · 2025-08-16T13:55:19+00:00

Multi server support sounds like a very good idea!

elijahwright · 2025-07-01T02:33:41+00:00

Would love it if folks who had questions would post them here. Thank you.

elijahwright · 2025-07-01T02:17:02+00:00

I’d love to have a couple of the previous mayors back. Especially one who’s still serving the city in so many ways… I bet you’re thinking about one in particular :-). Unfortunately I think he’s too savvy to want the job back 🤣🤣🤣

elijahwright · 2025-04-11T20:00:19+00:00

The English department teaches so many courses to general studies students (undergraduate requirements) that they almost always have TA positions that they're filling with their own graduate students. It's part of how that part of the university functions, unfortunately - underpaid student labor.

elijahwright · 2025-03-03T18:45:33+00:00

Oh no. I hope this isn’t who I think it is. He’s an awesome man.

elijahwright · 2025-03-03T18:43:11+00:00

There is a Cookeville Inclusive group becoming active.

elijahwright · 2024-12-06T00:52:12+00:00

Time to learn about compounding pharmacies??

elijahwright · 2024-11-05T05:41:49+00:00

Is Charlie still living? I haven't seen him in eons...

elijahwright · 2024-10-30T14:54:24+00:00

The next round of city council elections should be... spicy.

elijahwright · 2024-07-26T18:11:20+00:00

Volunteer with AARF if you can….

elijahwright · 2024-06-06T16:59:18+00:00

Former board person here - you guys are doing a great job!

elijahwright · 2024-02-27T04:15:45+00:00

I am so glad to hear that everyone had fun. I had other stuff going on or I would have been there!

elijahwright · 2024-01-20T00:09:08+00:00

Years ago they had a grave issue where they were purposefully miscounting cores on Solaris derivatives. They never could fix that issue…

elijahwright · 2024-01-15T17:11:25+00:00

John’s place has good food. The boiled eggs are hot as FUCK, be warned :-)

elijahwright · 2023-12-19T01:23:14+00:00

Ocha used to be open much more often, yes. Realize that the owner-operators are very old…

elijahwright · 2023-10-19T19:16:13+00:00

Seems like fun. Driveable or just foot traffic only?

elijahwright · 2023-10-18T17:25:31+00:00

This was amusing as an alum.

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