
Threat Talks · 2026-07-14 · 20 min
Would you still use ChatGPT if your boss, or the AI provider, could read every single prompt you typed in? Most of us type something we would never share publicly into an AI tool every day. In this Threat Talks Deep Dive, Field CTO Rob Maas sits down with ON2IT senior developer Derk Bell to unpack the privacy problem hiding inside everyday AI use, and a genuinely clever way to solve it. The problem is bigger than a single prompt. An AI request carries far more context than a Google search: your conversation history, your files, and (with agents and MCP) automatic, autonomous access to your CRM, your email, your calendar and your codebase. A lot of that data is shipped off to a remote provider, often without you realizing it. Today we just trust those providers not to misuse it. As Derk points out, “trust us” is the exact opposite of Zero Trust: never trust, always verify. So how do you verify? Derk walks through Confer, the privacy-first AI service from Signal Protocol co-creator Moxie Marlinspike.
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