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spockz • today at 10:55 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

I had to read this a few times. The difference is that with the OpenAI case there were two willing and determined parties, whereas the typical attack vector a microvm traditionally deals with is one malicious or compromised microVM trying extract data from another unwilling one.


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brookst • today at 12:07 PM

Yes — and this isn’t really an attack. It’s an open signal channel between two microvm’s. If there was nobody intentionally listening in the other side you can shout into the ether as much as you want with no harm done.

The receiving side could be seen as a side channel attack, but not unique to LLMs.

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_blk • today at 1:26 PM

Yup. clear the caches between switches and they'll start causing voltage spikes to communicate.