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Security2026-08-13 · source-backed
arXiv 2608.12172 argues agent defenses are broken because they're agent-centric, entrusting enforcement to a nondeterministic component that prompt injection manipulates directly. The proposal imports three networking principles: centralized control with distributed enforcement, capability-based access, and zero-trust least privilege. The authors concede these don't cover appropriateness judgments. Fine. Put the enforcement point in the harness or a gateway anyway.
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Riffing on Apple's DRI management concept, he argues accountability requires an entity that can actually be held responsible, and a machine cannot (Simon Willison). It's a sharp, quotable counterweight to the "let the agent own it end-to-end" enthusiasm. I keep this one close...
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Willison launched datasette-apps (0.1a2) on June 18, hosting self-contained HTML+JS apps in a sandboxed iframe that run SQL against your data, read-only by default. He frames it as "Claude Artifacts reimagined for Datasette," artifacts backed by a JSON API to a relational data...
His conclusion is DuckDB matches or beats SQLite's safety for untrusted queries, but only with enable_external_access=false, lock_configuration=true, and a watchdog thread, since DuckDB lacks SQLite's opcode-based query timeouts. He ships a safe_duckdb.py helper and a Datasett...
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