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by verdverm 194 days ago
We give AI access to our machines, so they have a critical security flaw...

In a sense yes, and in a sense no, because this is by design

I'm close to having my custom coding assistant extension always working in a container, yet keeping the same IDE experience. More people will do this, it makes sense, and mainly requires plumbing and wiring, not new tech

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The article discusses exploits such as automatically fetching a JSON schema via a fake schema URL that actually exfiltrates data. Since the IDE is leaking the data, the container won't be of any help in this situation.