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gmueckltoday at 5:35 AM2 repliesview on HN

Also, terminal access is extremely powerful on its own. Why should an agent even get access to that? I see it as a potential violation of least privileges.


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datsci_est_2015today at 11:57 AM

Why trust any user with access to any terminal? UNIX solved this decades ago. It’s just we’re all learning to be sysadmins for the most creatively destructive and persistent set of users of all time.

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lelanthrantoday at 10:47 AM

> Also, terminal access is extremely powerful on its own. Why should an agent even get access to that? I see it as a potential violation of least privileges.

When even the official software from the token providers have never had human eyes on 800kSLoC, I'm afraid that ship has sailed: the principle of least privileges has already been ravaged to hell and back.

Sealing a pin-prick hole in a dam wall is pointless if half the dam has already been washed away.