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Comment by antonvs

VMs are demonstrably not infallible, but that's not quite the issue here.

If you only ever run your banking app inside a VM with an encrypted disk volume, and don't browse sketchy sites or do anything else in there, then you're very well protected against even LLM-assisted attacks.

One caveat in that case is I wouldn't keep the password to the VM disk in a password manager, since that then becomes an attack vector.

A keylogger would still be a viable attack vector, though. The security of operating systems is going to need to be improved to guard against some of these things, e.g. a protected input mechanism for passwords that can't be intercepted.

parent antonvs 16 hours ago

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