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When Local AI Tools Phone Home

When Local AI Tools Phone Home

Episode 5434 Published 3 weeks, 4 days ago
Description
If a tool runs inference on your device, it has no legitimate reason to touch the network. That makes outbound traffic from a "local" AI tool one of the few clean security signals left — and it's exactly the signal attackers work hardest to avoid. This episode traces keystroke capture from the permission prompt down to the SQLite file on disk, then follows the data through the exfiltration chain: commodity sideloaded APKs firing plain HTTP POSTs, and the sophisticated end where nation-state-resourced actors operate. Along the way: why Grammarly's keyboard hook is architecturally identical to a credential stealer's, why ComfyUI's local guarantee was true and still didn't protect anyone, and what defenders can actually check on their own devices. Episode #944480 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/944480
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