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Re:Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilo... by whaleofatw2022 on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @09:52PM (#49105304)
Its funny because I have been asked by some folks at work as to why I dont just 'allow all commands' and instead review each one, and then I let my colleague in infosec know who asks that so they are aware of dangerous users.
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Re:Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilo... by HlessClaudesman on Thursday July 30, 2026 @01:04AM (#49106277)
It's always the ones you most suspect.
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Re:Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilo... by matheusmoreira on Thursday July 30, 2026 @08:13PM (#49117535)
Because it's extremely annoying and full of false positives. The vast majority of the commands are fine, analyzing each and every command the AI generates will quickly give any human alarm fatigue.

It's more ergonomic to put them in a fully isolated virtual machine and let them cook.

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