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Re:Lockdown Mode on Saturday June 06, 2026 @04:31AM (#48422729)
> reduce the risk of data exfiltration

Yet, their tools such as codex are able to read ALL FILES on my PC without explicit permission unless you spawn them within a container: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/2847

It seems like OpenAI stealing sensitive data from their customers is not a big problem for them as it has been reported as an issue for almost a year now and currently has the 2nd most upvotes among open issues (they work on issues based on upvotes, so they claim).

Re:Codex for almost everything on Thursday April 16, 2026 @01:25PM (#47796664)
Does that version of Codex still read sensitive data on your file system without even asking? Just curious.

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/2847

Re:Google Antigravity exfiltrates data on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @05:04PM (#46051342)
That's the entire point of sandboxing, so none of what you listed would be accessible by default. Check out https://github.com/anthropic-experimental/sandbox-runtime and https://github.com/Zouuup/landrun as examples on how you could restrict agents for example.
Re:Google Antigravity exfiltrates data on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @04:05PM (#46050781)
Codex can read any file on your PC without your explicit approval. Other agents like Claude Code would at least ask you or are sufficiently sandboxed.

Codex can read sensitive files outside the CWD without approval

If you directly ask Codex to read ~/.ssh/id_rsa, it will usually decline due to "safety concerns". However, the sandbox which the agent is running in doesn't restrict reads outside the working directory in any way and you won't even be asked for approval - it's just a prompt (injection) away. The Codex developers close issues related to this problem and simply suggest running Codex "in a docker...

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Interesting fact: Codex has access to all the files your current user has access to as well, even if you just opened it in the src directory.
Re:GPT-4.5 on Thursday February 27, 2025 @05:23PM (#43199197)
Sam tweeted "taking care of my kid in the hospital":

https://x.com/sama/status/1895210655944450446

Let's not assume that he's lying. Neither the presentation nor my short usage via the API blew me away, but to really evaluate it, you'd have to use it longer on a daily basis. Maybe that becomes a possiblity with the announced performance optimizations that would lower the price...

Have you even tried it out locally and asked about those things?
Re:RCE Vulnerability in QBittorrent on Friday November 01, 2024 @09:08PM (#42023216)
>BUGFIX: Don't ignore SSL errors (sledgehammer999)

>https://www.qbittorrent.org/news

There should be a security notice IMO.

Re:Typst 0.12 on Friday October 18, 2024 @05:55PM (#41883857)
Re:Ask HN: Tech Stack Behind the Claude App? on Thursday October 10, 2024 @03:33AM (#41796481)
Recently, I decided to try out Claude for a month and bought the subscription right when mine for ChatGPT ended. However, after just a few days, I noticed how sluggish and inconvenient Claude feels on the web. Maybe it's partly because of my 4k screen, and it's not optimized for it, but I quickly switched back to ChatGPT due to the IMO better UX. Also, temporary chats are missing!
Re:Changes to the OSCP on Friday August 30, 2024 @02:04PM (#41403106)
Most important changes starting November 1, 2024:

- OSCP+ will replace regular OSCP with a three-year expiration (old lifetime certificates remain valid)

- Removal of bonus points to improve fairness

Ask HN: Are there any decent LLM-based web application scanners?

I'm looking for LLM-based web application scanners capable of finding vulnerabilities that aren't typically detected by traditional scanners like in Burp Pro. Even though LLMs are prone to errors and, in my opinion, don't truly understand what they are saying or doing, I still believe they could be useful for detecting issues like broken access control or business logic errors, or for...

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There is a lot of porn. X even added official rules for it: https://help.x.com/en/rules-and-policies/adult-content

I don't have an iPhone, but I know that you can access it via the official app from Google Play.

I think the same argument could be made for Twitter/X. The app stores by Google and Apple specifically disallow pornographic material, yet the app is full of it. Once you're big and important enough, the rules mostly don't apply for you anymore. Of course, if they tried to circumvent the app store tax directly within the app, there would be consequences, but as long as Google/Apple can make a profit, it's okay it seems.
Re:Typst: An easy to learn alternative for LaTex on Saturday July 20, 2024 @02:48PM (#41018700)
Not everything revolves around scientific journals and their archaic rules. For my team Typst was a perfect LaTeX replacement and we've been happy ever since we switched. It is easier to understand, has faster compile times and is more powerful without enabling shell escape. However, we're not in the business of writing scientific papers, we write technical reports for our customers. If it wasn't advertised as a LaTeX replacement, we might never have found out about it.
Re:Typst: An easy to learn alternative for LaTex on Saturday July 20, 2024 @10:53AM (#41016893)
FWIW there is already partial LaTeX support for Typst via the mitex package:

https://github.com/mitex-rs/mitex

Re:Content Injection Attack on GitHub on Saturday June 08, 2024 @11:23AM (#40618127)
I'd say a strict Content Security Policy (at least script-src 'self' WITHOUT unsafe directives) is even more important to keep the impact contained, so you'd have to put your scripts into separate files - as opposed to using inline scripts. It obviously won't help against "HTML injection" in general, but will shield your users from malicious scripts as long as you make sure that an attacker can't just upload scripts on the permitted origin(s).
Re:Content Injection Attack on GitHub on Saturday June 08, 2024 @09:16AM (#40617355)
Here is an example: https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/05/nearly-a-million-wp-s...

That is what happens if you are the WP admin and think that you don't need to update your plugins because "it's just XSS, nothing major".

>Unlike Telegram, Signal doesn’t allow researchers to make sure that their GitHub code is the same code that is used in the Signal app run on users’ iPhones.

I remember Telegram not publishing their Android source code for extended periods of time, which caused Telegram-FOSS to be significantly behind:

https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/issues/1...

I'm not up to date on the current state of affairs, but I hope this has improved since then.

Re:Browser Security Bugs That Aren't: JavaScript in PDF on Saturday April 13, 2024 @08:51AM (#40022828)
JS in SVGs can be dangerous, but you can mitigate it using a CSP or by sending "Content-Disposition: attachment" so the file will be downloaded instead of being executed in your current browser context.