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· 9 min read · ai, agent, security

Excessive Agency Is a Reliability Bug, Not Only a Security Risk

When an agent is allowed to act too broadly, the risk is not only leakage or abuse. It also becomes hard to operate: it works outside scope, repeats actions, burns budget, and fails without a clean way back.

· 3 min read · security, programming, development

Is Hash/Digest Not Cryptography?

It is common for people to argue that hashing is not cryptography; they do it so vehemently that they ridicule things like "I encrypted it with MD5." Is it really that wrong to say...