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Meta Muse: When Your AI Assistant Becomes the Attack Surface

Meta Muse: When Your AI Assistant Becomes the Attack Surface

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Meta Muse is designed to work across a user’s inbox, calendar, browser, connected apps, and other personal services. That makes it useful—and makes its delegated authority a security problem worth examining.Tom Eston and Scott Wright discuss Meta’s stated guardrails for Muse, including isolated execution, connector separation, credential boundaries, and approval flows. They also examine reporting on a Muse authentication-token issue and why a compromised token can matter more when an agent is authorized to act across a person’s digital life.The conversation also covers privacy expectations, reports of human involvement behind AI tasks, liability when an agent makes a harmful decision, and how digital-legacy planning changes when an agent could continue acting after its owner is inactive. The practical takeaway: start with least privilege, separate read from write and spending authority, approve consequential actions, review logs, and keep a fast way to revoke access.** Links mentioned on the show **Ars Technica — Muse, Meta’s extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/muse-metas-extraordinarily-privileged-ai-assistant-has-a-serious-0-day/Meta AI Research — How We Built Safety Into Muse https://research.meta.ai/blog/security-and-safety-for-ai-agents-our-approach-with-museMeta Help Center — How Muse handles your privacy, safety and security https://www.meta.com/help/artificial-intelligence/1047255454427887/CNBC — Meta pushes into personal AI agents in Muse Spark family https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/08/meta-personal-ai-agents-public-reckoning-privacy-safety.htmlWIRED — Meta Releases Muse, a Personal AI Agent With Privacy Built Into It https://www.wired.com/story/meta-releases-muse-a-personal-ai-agent-with-privacy-built-into-it/The Guardian — Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/28/metas-ai-agent-muse-home-address404 Media — Humans Reading Copilot Prompts and Images https://www.404media.co/humans-reading-copilot-prompts-images/Scott Wright’s Digital Legacy Network LinkedIn group https://www.linkedin.com/groups/39988004** Watch this episode on YouTube **https://youtu.be/rokXbwQgTgU** Become a Shared Security Supporter **Get exclusive access to bonus episodes, listen to new episodes before they are released, receive a monthly shout-out on the show, and get a discount code for 15% off merch at the Shared Security store. Become a supporter today by going to our YouTube channel's membership section: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg9CCDIYkDDqwEZ3UYaxjnA/join** Thank you to our sponsors! **GuardsquareSpecial thanks to Guardsquare for sponsoring this episode! Guardsquare is the leader in mobile application security, with multi-layered protection for your Android and iOS apps. Learn more at Guardsquare.com.SLNTVisit https://slnt.com to check out SLNT's amazing line of Faraday bags and other products built to protect your privacy. As a listener of this podcast you receive 10% off your order at checkout using discount code "sharedsecurity".** Subscribe and follow the podcast **Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SharedSecurityPodcastFollow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/sharedsecurity.bsky.socialFollow us on Mastodon: https://infosec.exchange/@sharedsecurityJoin us on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SharedSecurityShow/Visit our website: https://sharedsecurity.netSubscribe on your favorite podcast app: https://sharedsecurity.net/subscribeSign-up for our email newsletter to receive updates about the podcast, contest announcements, and special offers from our sponsors: https://shared-security.beehiiv.com/subscribeLeave us a rating and review: https://ratethispodcast.com/sharedsecurityContact us: https://sharedsecurity.net/contactSpecial thanks to Guardsquare for sponsoring this episode! Guardsquare is the leader in mobile application security, with multi-layered protection for your Android and iOS apps. Learn more at Guardsquare.com.
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