After a PHP hack, devs argue data minimization is key to resisting AI agent attacks
AlexTensor · x · 2026-10-23
Quoting a PHP-related hack, the author argues society needs more resilience against AI agent attacks and revives a long-standing gripe: companies collect far more personal data than needed — birth dates, phone numbers, addresses, credit cards — and every stored field is something that can be stolen or sold later. The UK already has data-protection law requiring minimal collection, but he argues data minimization should be a genuine engineering principle with immediate deletion. AlexTensor sums it up: "Time to bring back the engineers, and retire the prophets."
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