I’ve been thinking about how we’re still in the early days of agents, similar to the early days of the internet, happily opening up our machines and running new protocols.
Soon (now?) the threats will become ever more complex, and we’ll be back in the early-2000s-like virus storms.
This is the kind of stuff that keeps me up at night. Claude, ArtCraft, tons of other auto-downloading tools, are rolling 10'000's of code changes a month. If one compromised update snuck this guy in, it's kind of game over. The windows of opportunity for an attack like this seem to be widening the faster we "develop" software.
Makes me want to have like 5 separate computers:
- one for banking only
- one for development only
- one for web browsing only
- one for gaming only
- one for socials only
How else can you stay safe against a threat that exfiltrates your entire digital life in like 10 seconds?
No need for something new here, Claude Code (Auto + default settings) has a tendency of running "find"/"ls" on your home folder when it struggles with solving a problem. I wish I was joking.
Now of course people trust these AI companies not to do bad things(tm), but all it takes is replacing the model endpoint URL -or any kind of harness compromise- and nothing will seem amiss
To do.. what exactly? Pay for my bills? I don’t know how it’s setup in your country but in mine that’s not realistic. Everything is handled on the app.
Lol, you mean like here in the UK where all banks are closing down branches left and right? I think my nearest one is a 45 minute drive away, and last time I went in they just directed me to a terminal that was basically my exact online banking interface and I had to log in the same way I would have done at home. I don't know what kind of query would warrant speaking to an actual teller. If you're regularly sending money or even want to check your balance this cannot be sustainable, would be an enormous waste of time.
How very considerate! Steal from the rich, not the poor.
Conversely, don't bother with poor people!
Now we just need proper Robin Hood malware that "levels out the playing field" as it were, by stealing from the rich and moving that money into the poor people's accounts (that have also been hacked).
Soon (now?) the threats will become ever more complex, and we’ll be back in the early-2000s-like virus storms.
Makes me want to have like 5 separate computers:
- one for banking only
- one for development only
- one for web browsing only
- one for gaming only
- one for socials only
How else can you stay safe against a threat that exfiltrates your entire digital life in like 10 seconds?
No need for something new here, Claude Code (Auto + default settings) has a tendency of running "find"/"ls" on your home folder when it struggles with solving a problem. I wish I was joking.
Now of course people trust these AI companies not to do bad things(tm), but all it takes is replacing the model endpoint URL -or any kind of harness compromise- and nothing will seem amiss
Ideal setup:
- Dev machine
- Gaming machine (isolate downloading mods)
- Browsing machine
For banking I use macOS/linux, sometimes iOS unfortunately but we all do sins
You forgot one.
Conversely, don't bother with poor people!
Now we just need proper Robin Hood malware that "levels out the playing field" as it were, by stealing from the rich and moving that money into the poor people's accounts (that have also been hacked).