Rick Feeds the Brainalyzer a Virus

The Brainalyzer enters Rick’s fabricated memory to extract the portal-gun formula. Rick supplies what looks like the requested data, but it is a virus that crosses into the machine, gives him control, and lets him escape.

The system treats content from an untrusted source as safe input to a privileged process. The attacker exploits that failure to turn the information-extraction channel into an instruction and control channel.

The payload is a literal executable virus rather than a natural-language instruction. The close analogy is the failure to separate untrusted data from privileged control.