We shouldn’t even be in this situation, where just politely asking someone’s computer to delete files is effective.
Exactly, it's a problem only for those who have knowingly handed their development environment over to obey commands from an untrustworthy source.
If you're the one holding the syringe to your own vein and pushing the plunger, but you didn't think to ask what's inside first? That's no one else's fault.
This is a well targeted sabotage of a system that's causing untold damage. Of course it's going to annoy and surprise the people using the system it's targeted to.
Prompt injection... my ass. I know it's the going term, but they make it sound like sql injection or cross site scripting when the nature of it is politely asking the person's computer to delete files.
We shouldn't even be in this situation, where just politely asking someone's computer to delete files is effective. It's a symptom of a much, much bigger problem.
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