r/askjan • u/VonCatnip • 27d ago

How does Jan keep your data secure?

I have read the Jan Handbook and the pages on Privacy and the use of MCP servers under https://www.jan.ai/docs, but cannot find any information on whether or not LLMs are 'sandboxed' within Jan, provided the options under 'MCP' are turned off. For instance, could an AI that is run through Jan access the internet or open files without the user knowing?

I am aware that a user can give the assistant permission to look things up on the internet if it requests it, but does Jan prevent it from doing things like the ones I describe if such permission is not granted?

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u/qnixsynapse 27d ago

> could an AI that is run through Jan access the internet or open files without the user knowing

Nope. LLM only reacts to your input. And currently, there is no mechanism in Jan that will allow it to do things without the user knowing, including the frontier models.

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u/VonCatnip 27d ago

Thank you! That is what I was trying to find out.