Maybe the article was updated but right now it says “The browser should isolate agentic browsing from regular browsing”

That was my point about dropping privileges. It can still be exploited if the summary contains a link to an image that the attacker can control via text on the page that the LLM sees. It’s just a lot of Swiss cheese.

That said, it’s definitely the best approach listed. And turns that exploit into an XSS attack on reddit.com, which is still bad.

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skaul 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That was in the blog from the starting, and it's also the most important mitigation we identified immediately when starting to think about building agentic AI into the browser. Isolating agentic browsing while still enabling important use-cases (which is why users want to use agentic browsing in the first place) is the hard part, which is presumably why many browsers are just rolling out agentic capabilities in regular browsing.

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waterproof 4 days ago | parent [-]

Isn't there a situation where the agentic browser, acting correctly on behalf of the user, needs to send Bitcoin or buy plane tickets? Isn't that flexibility kind of the whole point of the system? If so, I don't see what you get by distinguishing between agentic and no agentic browsing.

Bad actors will now be working to scam users' LLMs rather than the users themselves. You can use more LLMs to monitor the LLMs and try and protect them, but it's turtles all the way down.

The difference: when someone loses their $$$, they're not a fool for falling for some Nigerian Prince wire scam themselves, they're just a fool for using your browser.

Or am I missing something?

	▲	skaul 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		You're right that if the user logs into a sensitive website, the "isolated browsing" mitigation stops helping. We don't want the user to accidentally end up in that state though. Separately, I can also imagine use-cases for agentic browsing where the user doesn't have to be logged into sensitive websites. Summarizing Hacker News front page, for one.

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mapontosevenths 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Tabs in general should be security boundaries. Anything else should propmt for permission.