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Yeah, networking is such a hassle.
I think that this is really insightful, as it's actually part of the magic trick. Like, normally I'd start by wondering about air-gapping, but there can't be an air gap in the network because the entire trick relies on ChatGPT tokens flowing into the machine under test and into some system shell (in some VM, yadda yadda) and back out again, so of course this is going to be an inherently insecure setup.
the networking part is fine (I do a looooot of networking), but the software quality and choices (esp with containers) is just extremely meh
re the gapping, eh, there are ways. just off the top of my head: rig up the serial console, screen+camera and usb keyboard signalling (which you can data diode on transmission later via usbnet). and that’s before you go for esoteric side channels and utter silliness
but “I turned off spectre and friends mitigation” is just some extremely funny shit
idly, I do wonder how well an ocr-only clodjeepeetea would work. every time I look in on all these “agent session” tools they appear to be a very mech turk thing of a phenomenal bit of hidden state, and a tiny little bit of visible distraction. feels like ocr-only might break a bunch of the usual tricks that are used to build on for the shiny demo