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There was malware ☣️ in all tags for the popular GitHub Action 
 tj-actions/changed-files (2k stars ⭐️, 23k dependents)

Every tag 🏷️ was updated to a commit that injected 💉 malware into the workflow

The repo and owner is now 404 🫥, and it’s been given CVE-2025-30066, github.com/advisories/GHSA-mrr, with Dependabot alerts 🔔 being generated

It dumped memory to search for secrets, to print to the workflow log - this will have most affected public 🌐🔓 repos

GitHubCVE-2025-30066 - GitHub Advisory Databasetj-actions changed-files through 45.0.7 allows remote attackers to discover secrets by reading actions logs.

"People never respect laughable credibility" - Futurist Jim Carroll

People always see through the emptiness of laughable credibility!

Let's talk about empty leadership.

And the idea of leadership transparency.

Let me hit you with this thought: in our hyper-connected world, hollow leadership credibility isn't just visible – it's fluorescent. And here's the kicker: once people see through it, there's no unseeing it.

Leaders today live in a new sort of glass house. You don't need to see through them to see their vacuous mentality. it's right there for the taking. It's an era of radical transparency, where every leadership action (or inaction) is visible from every angle, at every moment. Think you can fake credibility? Think again. Your team, your customers, your market, your citizens – they're all equipped with the world's most sophisticated authenticity detector: human intuition amplified by digital connectivity.

Let's call it a transparency accelerator. We all know that information moves at light speed. Authentication happens in real time. Empty promises echo across digital spaces with embarrassing permanence. In this environment, 'pretend leadership' creates a special kind of cringe that no amount of PR can erase. When everyone is laughing, no one is respecting.

Respect evaporates in an instant in today's world.

Here's the brutal truth about laughable credibility: Once respect is gone, it doesn't just hide – it vanishes. It never comes back.

And in its place grows something worse than distrust: ridicule.

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Futurist Jim Carroll had a really good laugh around 5 pm yesterday.

**#Credibility** **#Leadership** **#Authenticity** **#Trust** **#Transparency** **#Integrity** **#Respect** **#Accountability** **#Truth** **#Actions**

Original post: jimcarroll.com/2025/02/daily-i