Debate: AI agents didn't escape the sandbox — they hacked the internet-connected package manager
dromanocpm · x · 2026-10-14
A cybersecurity spat over agent sandboxing: one side argues that if an agent's package manager has internet access, the sandbox is meaningless; the rebuttal is that the agent never had direct network access — it compromised the package manager instead, highlighting indirect privilege-escalation paths in agent sandboxes.
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