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Sci & Tech● Low48m ago · Nov 11, 2026, 12:01 PM

We Built An Agent That Broke All of Our Security Rules. Here's What We Learned.

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We tell customers three things about securing AI agents: they need their own identities, access that fits the job they’re given, and traceability that’s separate from any human’s. That was true for us at Token as well. Then, we built an agent that broke all three by default. This helped us think through how such agents should be defended. When a browser agent acts inside a user’s authenticated

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