Treat Local Model Output as Untrusted

The move: keep a trust boundary after the model. Local LLMs are often adopted for privacy: prompts can stay on your machine, and sensitive documents do not need to go to a hosted provider. That is a real benefit. It is not a safety guarantee. OWASP's LLM risk framing is useful because it treats the model as part of an application, not a magic text box. A local model can still follow malicious instructions hidden in a retrieved document. It can still produce code that should not be executed. It can still leak sensitive snippets from a context window. It…

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