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Google won’t fix ‘ASCII smuggling’ hack in Gemini AI (pivot-to-ai.com)
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‘the issue can only result in social engineering’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr8ENG1y5Cw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251011-google-wont-fix-ascii-smuggling-hack-in-gemini-ai - podcast

time: 3 min 47 sec

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 8 points 8 hours ago

Gemini is special — Google’s put it everywhere. For instance, in any company that uses Google Apps. Markopoulos built test attacks against Google Calendar invites. He could hit the titles, the meeting organizer’s name, and the meeting descriptions.

Ah, good, nice to know Google's negligence is providing some sort of setup for the next ILOVEYOU-level disaster /s