A Design Flaw in Share Links Exposes Users’ Personal Conversations With Meta’s Muse
Source: Wired ·
The company is suspending the feature after security researchers discovered how easy it was to access sensitive information shared with the AI assistant.
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Muse, the new general-purpose AI agent from Meta, can expose sensitive information when users share conversations through web links, researchers reported Monday. In response to questions from Ars about the behavior, Meta said it’s suspending the sharing feature while the company reviews it and considers making changes. Like many online services, Muse has allowed users to share searches, conversations, images, and similar content with other people. Such share features usually involve clicking an option to create a unique URL that anyone can use to load a page hosting the content. To keep potentially sensitive information from being accessible to unintended people , the URLs typically contain a long sequence of text that can’t be easily guessed. Muse, which Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said last month was “built from the ground up for privacy and security,” seems to take the same precautions. But a central design decision for constructing URLs has made the links easy to discover. As a…