Contractor Ran Personal AI Agent on Pentagon Network for Two Months Undetected
geoffwolfe · x · 2026-11-03
A security practitioner warns never to run AI agents under your own login: a defence contractor reportedly connected a personal AI agent to a Pentagon network with personal credentials, running for 2 months before detection. He cites a financial firm whose agents broke when their creator left, and urges unified agent hosting with per-agent identity.
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