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Credential Scanners Are Wearing Crawler Costumes

71.9 percent of traffic claiming to be Googlebot was hunting for .env files. Of 13,670 credential probes wearing a named crawler user agent, zero came from a verified vendor IP.

Dominic Plouffe · 7 min Aug 14, 2026
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Agents need built-in security, not bolt-on audits

Problem Organizations are racing to deploy agentic systems — assistants that act on our behalf, call tools, and change state in the…

Dominic Plouffe · 4 min Mar 11, 2026
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Agents Are Here — Build with an Action Firewall

Title: Agents Are Here — Build with an Action Firewall Hook: The agent era is not a feature release — it’s a…

Dominic Plouffe · 2 min
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Your Agent Is a Junior Operator With Root Access

Here’s a fun new job title that nobody asked for: AI babysitter. If you’re shipping agents (or even “just” tool-calling features), you’re…

Dominic Plouffe · 4 min
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Agents on the Desktop: What It Means to Put an Agent Between You and the OS

Agents on the Desktop: What It Means to Put an Agent Between You and the OS Problem: we handed developers autonomous assistants…

Dominic Plouffe · 4 min
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The least sexy checklist that will keep your agent from burning down the org

The least sexy checklist that will keep your agent from burning down the org Enterprise AI is no longer a thought experiment.…

Dominic Plouffe · 4 min
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Agents at the Gates: Why Your Open-Source Agent Is the New Attack Surface

Agents at the Gates: Why Your Open-Source Agent Is the New Attack Surface We’ve crossed from “language toy” to “active agent.” That’s…

Dominic Plouffe · 5 min Mar 10, 2026