But online it's very hard to find

Pickle payload is a red flag precisely because pickle is not a safe serialisation format format when taken as untrusted input, here the input was trusted but it's still giving someone en easy escalation path (exactly what happened)

And most people would assume the whole cookie payload would be encrypted if they saw just a binary blob, and not realise you can fully read it if it's just signed

But, yes, the post was probably edited by an LLM, as is pretty much everything else you read online these days.

plus, it was a neat way of having a company supplied line of credit and defer payment for a couple months with no interest

Very handy when I don’t want to use my money for whatever reason but also don’t want the company to know everywhere I’ve been

The modern day equivalent is probably discord, there are servers with really close communities where everyone knows each other

We found out you could add a negative tip and it would discount it off the price, but no one exploited it too scared that if they banned our address we’d be eating Tesco meal deals instead.

I’m a native Spanish speaker and I find English poetry much easier to understand, English is more rigid and while technically it might have a larger vocabulary you can do less with it, while the flexibility of Spanish in terms of word order and suffixes makes it possible to craft some really labyrinthine verses

Inference is still done in plaintext after this multi-agent message gets decrypted in the server side

In that situation it makes sense for you to bring a personal laptop which you can use to access non confidential stuff, you might not write any code in it and might just be given docs to read through

But if the bot is advanced / expensive enough, it gets a lot harder. Where this product's market sits is in giving a paid way to access content compared to having to spin up bots that run js, from real IP addresses, etc. all of which are more expensive

Even in LLM jailbreak CTFs I've seen, it ends up feeling like underpaid work when it's sponsored by Microsoft and the prize pool is, say $10k (including stuff like azure credits) considering the salaries AI safety engineers command at big tech!