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Re:Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers on Monday July 13, 2026 @12:11PM (#48894817)
What happened here is not related to agentic behavior or instructions in .md files. It's a binary a user runs, it scoops up their files and sends them to a third-party.

And the user even paid $99/month or more for having their data leaked.

Not the first time by the way. GitHub Copilot Chat: From Prompt Injection to Data Exfiltration https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2024/github-copilot-cha...
Re:MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System on Saturday June 28, 2025 @03:13PM (#44407335)
When I read about MCP the first time and saw that it requires a "tools/list" API reminded me of COM/DCOM/ActiveX from Microsoft, it had things like QueryInterface and IDispatch. And I'm sure that wasn't the first time someone came up with dynamic runtime discovery of APIs a server offers.

Interestingly, ActiveX was quite the security nightmare for very similar reasons actually, and we had to deal with infamous "DLL Hell". So, history repeats itself.

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