Yet another Hacker News

Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day

44 points pavel_lishin 1 hour ago 18 comments

willtemperley 1 hour ago | parent

Who in their right mind would install a Meta AI with near admin privileges?

imagetic 48 minutes ago | parent

We all fear the true answer to that question.

snapcaster 39 minutes ago | parent

almost every normal person

jsbisviewtiful 30 minutes ago | parent

Normally I’m not one to blame the victims but, uh, yeah who in the world is dumb enough to trust Meta at this point?

sick_of_slop 30 minutes ago | parent

“They trust me, dumb fucks”.

john_strinlai 18 minutes ago | parent

most people don't know or care what "admin privileges" even means, or why they wouldn't want ai to have them

sandeepkd 15 minutes ago | parent

Almost everyone who is struggling with AI insecurity and is afraid of being left behind

shimman 5 minutes ago | parent

No, most workers don't really say this in surveys and polling. They tend to hate LLM tools because it makes their jobs worse, nothing about being left behind.

The only people pushing the "left behind" narrative is SV + SF + VC since their previous narratives have failed to persuade the public (thank fuck).

josefresco 5 minutes ago | parent

"Normies" aka the average user on Meta. They have no concept of what "admin privileges" means and don't really care.

peri-cl 53 minutes ago | parent

I'm confused what the vulnerability is. Does macOS have some specific function for protecting key material, that it's unexpected that if you execute user-privileged code locally, outside of a sandbox, it gets full read access?

voxic11 46 minutes ago | parent

Yeah macOS security is capability based rather than purely identity based. So if you don't pass the required entitlements to an application then it cannot do stuff like read from the system keychain even if its running as your user.

SoftTalker 41 minutes ago | parent

A zero day? Of course it does. It likely has many. Given the history of software, it's impossible to think it wouldn't.

tcdent 13 minutes ago | parent

You would think a website dedicated to talking about software engineering would agree with this sentiment wholeheartedly.

sippingabonedry 33 minutes ago | parent

Maybe they should have spent the money used to buy its stupid name from a band on additional testing instead.

axus 17 minutes ago | parent

Did the band end up getting money for that?

echelon 5 minutes ago | parent

Presumably. They changed their handle on non-Meta social networks to match at around the same time as the Meta handle change.

yalok 30 minutes ago | parent

> macOS has long provided a simple means for apps to handle dictation and transcription in processes that stay securely on the device

Not sure these guys realize that the quality and latency of those Apple services in MacOS is way lower than SOTA and not too many people use them because of that…