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The security reflex October 13, 2026 2 minutes

The security reflex

The security reflex

With your credentials, the agent is you
With your credentials, the agent is you. On your phone or your accounts, its actions look like yours; an account of its own sets it apart. Your agent. phone or accounts. Your credentials. lent as they are. Its account, its key. for it alone. What you touch. its action counts as yours. A separate profile. no bank, no messaging. Your agent → Your credentials (borrows). Your agent → Its account, its key (gets instead). Your credentials → What you touch (opens). Its account, its key → A separate profile (stays within).

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Are you about to let an agent use your phone or your accounts? This week, a $7 board is enough for an AI to tap on a real iPhone. With your phone or your credentials, the agent has your permissions: it touches what you touch, and nothing tells its actions apart from yours.

The right move. Give each agent its own account and its own key, never yours. And if it uses a phone or a browser, give it a place of its own: a test device or a dedicated browser profile, with no bank, no main inbox, no saved passwords.

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