Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

“Prompt injection” is a misleading label.

What we’re seeing in real LLM systems looks a lot more like malware campaigns than single-shot exploits.

This paper argues LLM attacks are a new malware class, Promptware, and maps them to a familiar 5-stage kill chain:

• Initial access (prompt injection)
• Priv esc (jailbreaks)
• Persistence (memory / RAG poisoning)
• Lateral movement (cross-agent / cross-user spread)
• Actions on objective (exfil, fraud, execution)

If you’ve ever thought: “why does this feel like 90s/2000s malware all over again?", that’s the point.

Security theater around “guardrails” misses the real issue:

models can’t reliably distinguish instructions from data

assume initial access. Design for containment

https://arxiv.org/html/2601.09625v1

a while ago i saw a tumblr post comparing some kind of arcane piracy process to the steps for navigating the underworld of greek mythology … does anyone have that handy? its important

FOUND IT: https://clarabeau.tumblr.com/post/748307077456363520

There once was a time where recluses who spent all day reading and philosophizing were considered wise and not just weird and maladaptive. Maybe I was born a thousand years too late.

Nature-Inspired Computers Are Shockingly Good At Math https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/01/10/0628251/nature-inspired-computers-are-shockingly-good-at-math?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Interested in #decentralization and #p2p ? Want to contribute to #OpenSource software?

Check out our "good first issue" project board and see if something sparks your interest.

https://github.com/orgs/AgregoreWeb/projects/5

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@Paulatics/115861469408403689

Canadians in general need to get off US-based corporate social media. And search agents. And cloud storage. And VPNs.
Find a Mastodon instance (for example) based in Canada or elsewhere that reflects their interests; use a EU-based (much tougher security and privacy laws) search agent; consider cloud storage like Sync - based in Canada; and look at where their VPNs are based. Again, the EU (even free level at Proton) a safer bet for that.

#Canada #CanadaStrong #EU

There is a solution to the memory shortage. Developers could start writing efficient and optimized code. This may require some re-training.

First off, stop using multi-gig libraries is a start. Modern software is bloated slop, with the exception of some really nice open source programs.

The entire LibreOffice download is 348 MEGABYTES. Microsoft Office is 5.3 GIGABYTES. For WHAT?

#memory #dram #ddr5 #coding #software #optimization