Posted by cuchoi 2 days ago
That is, there was no value to any serious attempt here, just a handful of folks casually sending an email.
Other companies (actual targets) have been hacked via prompt injection.
This is like me offering up my Mac minis public ip to hackers, why would any actually good hacker want to hack my personal Mac mini? (They wouldn’t)
Uhhhh....
It sounds like the usability of the actual authorized user being able to email it and get things done was ruined, because if it retained context between multiple emails, the agent was ruined for actually doing anything. Running openclaw where you can't chat or email with it and have it retain context of previous interactions seems pretty useless to me.
Why? The exfiltration vector was known, the sample size was small, and the safety instructions were likely statically positioned. In regular operating practice, none of these three guarantees may hold.