I tried to talk Claude out of noticing a compromised PC. Prompt injection wasn't the problem.
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If you let an AI assistant read your process list over MCP and ask it "is my PC safe?", everything an attacker controls ends up in the model's context: process names, command lines, DNS names, autostart entries, MCP config values. A piece of malware doesn't need to hide from the model. It can just…
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- 2026-09-28 07:07 · DEV Community — AI
I tried to talk Claude out of noticing a compromised PC. Prompt injection wasn't the problem.