an AI agent literally destroyed all of this guy's production data Total AI disaster, yet totally predictable. here's the story:
> Cursor agent (Opus 4.6) tries to fix a staging bug
> Finds an unscoped Railway CLI token
> Guesses an API call
> Wipes Prod DB & 3 mos of backups
SECURITY
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AI Agent Destroys Production Database with Unscoped API Token
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Sandbox Security: Unbreakable Agent Containment Requirements
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The sandbox needs to be one an agent can't break out of – otherwise it's not a sandbox
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Designing safe environments for AI agent failures
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AI agents make mistakes all the time – you have to assume they will make mistakes, and then design their environment so that when they do they can't delete your production database
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Classifying Dangerous Code Execution Patterns in Python
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Can that classify dangerous versions of something like "uv run python -c 'import graphql; graphql.delete(…)" ?
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Tech Risk Management: Hardening Critical Infrastructure Before Rollout
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I totally disagree. This technology can bring down a lot of companies all at once. We need to harden our most important companies and the government itself before releasing this to everyone. It is too big a risk.
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Reducing Dependencies for Supply Chain Security
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It's to reduce installed dependencies to only the things you use, reduce supply chain risk. Security is all about tradeoffs.
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Anthropic’s billing bypass detection catches false positives
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Real bug, but the post skips why. Anthropic built detection for billing bypass tools and it's catching false positives on legitimate users.
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wacrawl 0.2.0: Encrypted Git Backup for WhatsApp
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Released wacrawl 0.2.0. New: encrypted Git backup/restore for WhatsApp Desktop archives. `wacrawl backup push` writes age-encrypted shards to GitHub; `backup pull` decrypts, verifies, and restores locally.
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Biometric Surveillance: Sam’s World Network Iris Scanning Concerns
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Dude, you do know Sam is confounder in @worldnetwork right? The company that has a biometric orb that people stand in line for hours to get iris scan and faces scan done with… you know this right? or that my prints are already in well over 20 government databases due to me
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Personal Data in Government Databases: Privacy Implications
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You know that my DNA is already in the ancestry database, my fingerprints are in the US, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Chinese, UK, Swiss, Vietnamese, Indonesia governments databases. Social security is public information where I live, as well as my income and tax statements. All