Inference engines are an underexamined attack surface, self-hosting ops warned
JeremyCMorgan · x · 2026-09-04
Sharing a security argument that inference engines are an underexamined attack surface: a model able to influence its own decoding path might, speculatively, reach the host system. The author notes parts are speculative but argues this threat model is worth having in mind before you self-host serving infrastructure.
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