I always felt bad about the whole site/browser cross integration that chrome and edge and others do. Now I feel really really really bad about it. Can almost see the marketing team's emails about what features to add, and the developers unwantingly writing the code not expecting such things to open so many holes
I think they very well understand that this code was full of bugs but no one cared. Likely was assigned to some junior who was making an entry into the team/repos as a non-critical task.
And it's hard to judge them: I'd also rather focus on real features.
I guess that explains the questions I had when I was mysteriously logged into Edge. I checked whether Chrome does something similar, and it can, but the setting "Sign in to Chrome when you sign in to other Google services" was set to "Don't sign in", so I'm not sure whether this is the default or not.
> So even if you’ve never created a User Profile in the browser, just visiting www.microsoft.com is enough for Edge to create one and sign you in automatically.
seconding this. it's even worse for those with executive dysfunction where it becomes too difficult to force one's self to continue taking what is now the long way around. even if you could do it so much better with time and practice.
If you can understand nuance and context, you would realise the phrase right before that is saying that he's not going to go into details about how navigation itself works in Chrome/Edge, and to watch the presentation from Google itself about those specific details if you are so inclined.
If you then continued on to read the remainder of the article, you would also discover that there was no AI assistance in this research at all.
Same; either put in the work to think it through and show us your thought process and conclusions, or just post your prompts and call it a day and everyone gets to move on.
If you continued to read the article, you would discover that he indeed goes through his entire thought process in building this chain. Including the fact this was done with no AI assistance at all.
No memory corruptions, no heap shenanigans, just pure logic bugs, almost made easy to understand for the reader.
As a bonus, they also posted a reverse chain: popping Edge from calc [0].
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh1zglq4mLE
And it's hard to judge them: I'd also rather focus on real features.
Wow, this is disturbing on its own
This is disgusting behaviour, RCE chain or not.
> I won’t go into too much detail in this post, because I think in this era, you can just ask your agents to fill in the details :)
If you then continued on to read the remainder of the article, you would also discover that there was no AI assistance in this research at all.
In fact, a problem with LLMs is that they consistently write more than I want to read.