There is without a doubt a variation of this prompt you can pre-test to successfully bait the LLM into exfiltrating almost any data on the user's machine/connected accounts.
That explains why you would want to go out and buy a mac mini... To isolate the dang thing. But the mini would ostensibly still be connected to your home network. Opening you up to a breach/spill over onto other connected devices. And even in isolation, a prompt could include code that you wanted the agent to run which could open a back door for anyone to get into the device.
Am I crazy? What protections are there against this?
LLMs obviously can be controlled - their developers do it somehow or we'd see much different output.
Such a supervisor layer for a system as broad and arbitrary as an internet-connected assistant (clawdbot/openclaw) is also not an easy thing to create. We're talking tons of events to classify, rapidly-moving API targets for things that are integrated with externally, and the omnipresent risk that the LLMs sending the events could be tricked into obfuscating/concealing what they're actually trying to do just like a human attacker would.