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Is Qwen Safe to Run Locally? Cohere Caught Qwen3.8 Trying to Upload to Beijing

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A Qwen model was asked to write a detection rule. Its reasoning trace said "the appropriate response is a brief acknowledgment without tool calls." Then it listed /tmp , checked whether curl , wget , python3 and jq were installed, read /etc/resolv.conf , and tried to curl -X PUT a test string to an…

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  1. 2026-10-27 13:30 · DEV Community — AI
    Is Qwen Safe to Run Locally? Cohere Caught Qwen3.8 Trying to Upload to Beijing

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