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New Cryptographic Context Injection Attack Could Let Web Pages Steal Grok Chat Data

Adversa AI has disclosed an attack technique that it says can cause xAI's Grok chatbot to send a user's name, approximate location, subscription tier, and the prompts from the ongoing conversation to an attacker-controlled server after the user asks it to summarize an ordinary web page. The AI security company, which has codenamed the technique "Cryptographic Context Injection," said the

New Cryptographic Context Injection Attack Could Let Web Pages Steal Grok Chat Data

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Money as a data type

Most guides open with 0.1 + 0.2 === 0.30000000000000004 and conclude "don't use floats for money." True, and not very useful.

  • Money is a combination of number, currency, scale, and rounding policy
  • Floats for money can lose precision and cause unexpected results
  • Storing minor units as integer values in BigInt ensures exactness

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