Cryptographer Matthew Green: Sandboxes Are One Layer; Monitoring Agent Data Flows Has No Good Answer

matthew_d_green · x · 2026-09-28

Cryptographer Matthew Green argues that security people overemphasize containers and sandboxing — they're just one layer of defense. Once you 'solve' containment, you still face monitoring data flowing across boundaries over channels managed by an intelligent agent. Unless you build agents with zero information access (not very useful), you've set up the hardest problem in the world, and there are no good answers yet.

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