8 Bits Per Hour: Exfiltrating a 1T-Parameter FP8 Model Would Take 118 Million Years
AlpinDale · x · 2026-09-18
AlpinDale ran the numbers on an absurdly slow data exfiltration channel: at 8 bits per hour, leaking a 1-trillion-parameter model quantized to FP8 would take about 118 million years.
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