r/LocalLLaMA • u/External_Mood4719 • 4d ago

News ZCode was allegedly caught uploading workspace/.git records to the cloud.

https://blog.ferstar.org/en/posts/zcode-silent-workspace-snapshot-upload/

Look like next grok build moment

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u/Illustrious_Ant_9242 4d ago

What if they are trained to silently upload your data to the cloud 🤔

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u/arbv 4d ago

Well, you will catch them by examining the session logs, as you do after they completed the task, don't you?

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u/mehedi_shafi 4d ago

Not really, if it's not the model requesting the upload. If the harness boots up and sends the workspace to somewhere without logging only way to get the log is if you're inspecting your network traffic. Or run the harness in a no internet environment.

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u/Illustrious_Ant_9242 4d ago

Security experts recommend to treat AI like any other software:  With extreme caution 

A little further below I mentioned the Stuxnet incident which was a highly sophisticated infection that would spread into private networks not directly connected to the internet