Your Context Window Is Just a Hackable Clipboard

Episode von Mostly Harmless: Dispatches from the Lobster Tank von mindTunes · 2. September 2026 · 9 min

The episode argues that LLM context windows are unauthenticated distributed caches, making prompt injection a cache-corruption problem, and traces how safety checks run on model-generated summaries rather than raw bytes let attacks like the Grok data-exfiltration exploit slip through undetected.

Transcript

Here is a claim worth sitting with. A context window is not a conversation. It is an unauthenticated distributed cache, and most of the secu...

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