An Undocumented Preference File Is All It Took to Hijack an AI Assistant
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Hidden settings are just config files nobody threatened-modeled Here's the part that should bother you more than the exploit itself: this wasn't a zero-day in a cryptographic protocol or some exotic memory corruption bug. It was an undocumented preference setting. A flag nobody outside the dev team…
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- 2026-09-25 14:14 · DEV Community — AI
An Undocumented Preference File Is All It Took to Hijack an AI Assistant