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_345 | on: Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
way worse things can happen than your machine being bricked, if a malicious actor can weaponize an agent to do their bidding
rfw300 | parent | next
> if a malicious actor can weaponize an agent to do their bidding

In my experience, human employees are much more vulnerable to this particular weakness than frontier agents (i.e. phishing attacks).

_345 | root | parent
I'm not letting Jenna from HR log into my personal machine with access to all of my lifelong data though. I do let my claude bypass permissions though
dumbdumb125 | parent
the solution to both of these is the same thing. vps with accounts for all the services specific to the agent (github and whatever else)
bornfreddy | root | parent
That's actually a great idea! Easier to setup and use than VM (hello ssh), safer than docker, and still pretty cheap. Thank you for the idea!