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nuancebydefaulttoday at 10:34 AM1 replyview on HN

To be honest, the 'bush hid the facts' bug was funny and was not really a vulnerability that could be exploited, unless... you understood Chinese and the alternative text would manage to pursuade you to do something harmful.

In fact, those were the good days, when a mere affair with your secretary would be enough to jeopardize your career. The pendulum couldn't have swung more since.


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egeozcantoday at 11:06 AM

> unless... you understood Chinese and the alternative text would manage to persuade you to do something harmful

Oh, here is the file I just saved... I see that it now tells me to rob a bank and donate the money to some random cult I'm just learning about.

Let me make a web search to understand how to contact the cult leader and proceed with my plan!

(luckily LLMs were not a thing back then :) )