Muse will apparently let you download its entire filesystem
A pair of developers say that with very little prompting, Meta’s Muse will share its entire filesystem with you. Peter James and Jonny L. Saunders have said they both independently coaxed Muse into zipping up and sharing the entire contents of its root filesystem, Ubuntu system files, app templates, and internal documentation. Saunders posted on Mastodon that it was “extremely easy” to replicate James’ results and that Muse had “Almost no prompt injection resistance.”
Meta denies that the incident represents a security breach. As noted in its announcement post, Meta’s Muse runs in persistent Linux virtual machinesfor each user. Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts said, “Just like with the laptop in front of you, of course you can see the files. Exporting virtual machine data doesn’t give people any privileged access to Meta infrastructure or to other people’s data.” Unlike with the average laptop, however, the data potentially reveals some...
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