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by cremer 63 days ago
Barely anyone mentioned the "AI agent angle", I mean the situation when an AI agent runs "cat readme.txt" a file with embedded instructions becomes a prompt injection attack. It is the same vulnerability class out-of-band data smuggled through an in-band channel, just targeting the different parser. Terminal security guys have been fighting this for decades and the AI guys are about to rediscover it