The irony: heavy agent sandboxing effort while users willingly hand over root access
SuB8u · x · 2026-10-03
jpschroeder highlights an irony in the agent ecosystem: enormous engineering effort goes into sandboxing agents, yet users willingly grant them root access to their entire digital lives. SuB8u adds that with the right UI, most consumers treat privacy, security, and identity theft as academic concepts only 'weirdos on the Internet' obsess about — exposing a major gap between agent security design and real user behavior.
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