Comment by xyzzy123

9 days ago

The real sandbox is not caring if your computer gets bricked.

way worse things can happen than your machine being bricked, if a malicious actor can weaponize an agent to do their bidding

  • > 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).

    • 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

  • 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)

    • 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!