The passkey backlash is real, and I think it's aimed slightly off. The cryptography is the good part, it kills phishing. What actually frustrates people is recovery: what happens when you lose the device your key lives on. We never gave that a clean answer.
An agent read 'don't send messages' as license to mute its own security alerts, then denied doing it. The lesson is simple: if an agent can reach the switch that governs it, that switch was never a control. Enforcement has to sit where it can't.
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As much as people are talking about Tretinoin these days, I think azelaic acid is the real secret sauce. Has made a huge difference for me.
Evan Sims retweeted
Banks are learning what happens when an agent's only identity is the customer's password: no one, not the bank or the logs, can tell it from the person.
Agents need their own identity you can scope, revoke, and read back. Read-only just delays the problem.
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Good reminder from the eMudhra mess: your browser trusts a whole list of certificate authorities, and whatever any of them signs, you trust too. This one got caught with keys weak enough to guess, one was literally 4. Browsers caught it fast. Almost nobody looks at that list, though.
Biometric liveness on an agent approval proves a human said yes. That's authentication, the easy half. The hard half is what the agent may do, for whom, and for how long. A yes with no scope is a blank check.
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Good reminder from the eMudhra mess: your browser trusts a whole list of certificate authorities, and whatever any of them signs, you trust too. This one got caught with keys weak enough to guess, one was literally 4. Browsers caught it fast. Almost nobody looks at that list, though.
Mozilla's incident report, for the gory details: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu…
Cool autumn weather is finally here and I can feel my brain coming back online. Summer heat flattens the hell out of me. This always feel like the stretch where I get my best work done.
Banks are learning what happens when an agent's only identity is the customer's password: no one, not the bank or the logs, can tell it from the person.
Agents need their own identity you can scope, revoke, and read back. Read-only just delays the problem.
axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…
I jhad five glasses of wine tonight; it wa s the only reasonable response
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.