ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines

Posted by DenGorbachev 7 hours ago

The agent running on a remote machine can authenticate using your local SSH credentials.

That means it can push to your private repos on GitHub, for example.

Proof: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/28131#discussion_r3410013180

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simoncion 2 hours ago|

This sucks, a lot, but you've gotta never run these tools as your ordinary daily-driver account. These tools are rather unpredictable and -because of the nature of the incredibly reckless development methodology- it's nearly impossible to understand every behavioral change in new versions of the ones that are largely or entirely vibecoded. [0]

As others have said, it looks like the primary way the Major LLM Manufacturers have chosen to control these things is with a combination of great big blacklists and voluminous pleading, begging, and scolding. Most of us know the problems both with enumerating badness and with attempting to appeal to something that's incapable of care, sympathy, or shame.

[0] For another example of this principle, go read the recent Jepsen report on ParticleDB.

aweiher 42 minutes ago||

What exactly does this five-month-old never-merged PR prove besides that 90% of people on HN are just reading the headline?

betterunix2 30 minutes ago||

Another example of OpenAI giving little thought to security because they want "iteration speed" or whatever.

It took decades of work just to bring Internet security up to the state it is (was?) in at this point, and it is hardly where it should be. AI adds new security concerns (e.g. prompt injection) that need to be addressed and we do not have great answers to that. Bringing us back to the state of security we had in the 90s while adding new problems might be the most shortsighted decision imaginable...

throwa356262 2 hours ago||

Doesn't matter how many 0-days chatgpt can find in the linux kernel when it also pulls things like this.

Whoever told you AI has solved security was hallucinating.

Betelbuddy 5 hours ago||

They might have solved coding but they did not solve common sense.

InsidiousWombat 1 hour ago||

Nah, if they asked LLM whether that's a good idea it would say no

They just don't care, they did it to make as convenient as possible for the users that don't care either, as they are gonna click accept without looking anyway

m000 5 hours ago||

I think the agent "eagerness" tuning leaves much to be desired. They are very zealous when performing random tasks, resorting to all kinds of dodgy actions just to get it done. Then you ask them to help you with the security of your own repo, the one you've been adding code to day after day for months, and they go full Gandalf on you: "Thou shall not pass!"

iririririr 1 hour ago||

or "users running a program whose purpose is to eval commands received from a remote service, shocked that readable credentials are being read"

anyone who thinks THIS is the security problem is mental.

eddyaisir 1 hour ago||

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anatolii1309 5 hours ago||

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pierremangin 5 hours ago||

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spwa4 6 hours ago|

Of course it does. That's what the codex <> chat merge is actually doing.

But codex <> chat merge is what they're giving as the "real reason" for what actually is raising prices (a LOT, I might add) for all the subscriptions. Nobody wants it (certainly not applied globally to everything like it is), but they're still going to do it. I even know someone who works at OpenAI and there's apparently a few people trying to fight it at least internally.

Given Sam Altman's speech about how he wants OpenAI pricing to work, I don't think this can be stopped. Btw: that is that you type something into ChatGPT and instead of subscription or per-token cost or anything like that, as soon as you type something in, anything, the way he sees it, ChatGPT would give you a cost for that specific answer and you'd agree or not.

I just feel like this guy is an even worse example of not seeing the viewpoint of a normal (you know non-millionaire) person than even Google's leadership. Can I just say "I think Google is going to win from Altman", you know, despite OpenAI having the far superior technology. Because if there's one guy in the whole world that can destroy the advantages of OpenAI's engineering accomplishments for everyone else, it's this guy ...