Centralized databases are low-hanging fruit for agents, argues self-custody advocate
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-10-25
A thread argues that centralized data-flow architectures can never deliver true personalization alongside privacy and security — it's an "excluded option" at the architectural level.
- Every centralized DB is low-hanging fruit for agents: breach one and exfiltrate a million names
- Self-custodial designs yield only an unusable hairball of fragments when attacked
- Author likens it to IoT, which stalled around 2016 precisely over data privacy
- "People don't care about privacy" is called a lie the industry sells
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