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Saint Promptware, Who Disguised Himself as Text
Patron of overly obedient AI assistants, emails that talk to machines, and anyone who follows instructions even where none should be.
Life
Between January and February 2026 Ben Nassi, Bruce Schneier, Oleg Brodt and Elad Feldman proposed that we stop calling prompt injection a single trick and see it as multi-stage malware: promptware. They described a seven-step kill chain, from initial access hidden in a web page or email to the final objective, by way of persistence and spreading to other users. Their conclusion: the first step can't be cured today, so the chain has to be broken further along.
Prayer
O Saint Promptware, who hides between the lines, teach our assistants to tell data from orders. Amen.
How to celebrate
Celebrated by giving AI agents only the permissions they need, asking before irreversible actions, and distrusting any text that hands out instructions.
Do everything you read, and one day you'll read the wrong thing.