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gz5··on Show HN: Agentic Identity Broker, OAuth Delegation for AI Agents
not OP but a couple related 'whys' that jumped out to me on their GH so curious your thoughts on them?

>OAuth2 Delegation & Consent. Manage OAuth2 scopes and user consent for third-party service integrations.

>MCP Servers for SaaS. If you want to offer an MCP server to your customers as part of your SaaS, the identity broker can provide an additional consent surface that records which agents were actually used. With centralized tool authorization, you can keep an audit trail of approvals on your side regardless of which agent the customer runs.

gz5··on Tailworm – Tailscale Vulnerabilities
appreciate your hard work and ts in general.

trimming is a neat feature - thanks for that - thought the ACLs are often not there to begin with because configuring off the full node level access defaults of the vpn is difficult, at least at scale.

not specific to ts - all vpns and firewalls have the same intrinsic issue.

gz5··on Tailworm – Tailscale Vulnerabilities
there are fair and not fair points in all this (too much AI?).

to be fair, config choices like tailnet lock and ephemeral keys can be used to mitigate.

however, the enumeration of the entire tailnet leading to one compromised node providing the whole map (e.g. hugging face) is inherent in their architecture. that one can be mitigated by ACLs for small networks, but that is unwieldy at scale.

i do have to agree that tailscale is a vpn - which is not easily reconfigured to follow more zero trust principles. so their zero trust washing marketing is disingenuous. they could stick with their strength: an easy to use version of a great vpn (wireguard).

gz5··on France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months
good points and all the more reason to monitor in reliable, safe manner?
gz5··on France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months
fridges are very reliable. but let's IoT them anyways so they can theoretically notify us if there is a problem.

so of course that creates/enables the problem and doesn't notify us.

deliciously ironic and rottingly sad.

this case was egregious - built-in backdoor pw - but that is downstream of the decisions to IoT them and to default them to listen on the network.

gz5··on Hackers Say They Stole Sensitive FBI Personnel Records
https://archive.is/onF4s#selection-8107.0-8107.70

ShinyHunters making the claim. Again.

gz5··on The Hugging Face Hack Wasn't What It Was Cracked Up to Be
https://archive.is/hnpmx

all 3 can be true at same time:

1. sensationalizing rarely helps and can obscure and hurt

2. the AI capabilities are underrated

3. attempted govt regulation is not the answer

the intent, or lack of intent, of the agent is mainly irrelevant if it is in the hands of a human with 'bad' intentions. what is more relevant are the capabilities of human + AI.

gz5··on What's Scarier Than Agents Taking over Internet? CEO Cartel Trying Take over AI
and meanwhile OpenAI adds to the Anthropic-stoked fire:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/technology/openai-model-s...

gz5··on Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
>If AI automatically places orders on Amazon's site, tomorrow it could place the order on another company's site, and the user won't know the difference.

Agree that is a big-time longer-term threat but "user won't know the difference" means the user gets the order with parity in delivery time, product quality, returns experience, etc...that won't be replicated overnight, at least not at scale (interesting to think what products could be done first...similar to Amazon starting with books).

Meanwhile ads made Amazon $19.8 billion last quarter alone, even while detracting from our user experience. Can't rip that business away overnight either, but it is less of a lift imo.

gz5··on Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Can't comment on the legal basis in the eyes of CFAA or DAFA, but from a business perspective AI is a legit threat to Amazon because headless Amazon makes it more difficult for Amazon to sell ads, which is a large part of their revenue.

Meaning, even if merchants would have a difficult time moving from Amazon to an AI native version of Amazon, this is still a threat.

gz5··on Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down
Dario/Anthropic cites 3 domains: 1. cyberattacks 2. bioterror 3. global economy chaos

So, the first set of questions is would 'exponentially better LLMs' dramatically increase the probability of any of the above, or domains that Dario is not citing? That assumes that exponential improvements will happen if there is not 'pacing'.

IF answers to above are 'yes', then we need to question if 'pacing' is viable. To use a different domain, regulating 95% of vehicles to a max speed would likely save 100s of 1000s of lives, but is not perceived to be viable. In other examples, regulation has unintended consequences in the opposite direction (e.g. some 'rent control' efforts and arguably some drug/alcohol laws).

gz5··on Nvidia is the central bank of AI
Interesting juxtaposition with Dario's/Anthropic's 'we must pace the frontier' missive today
gz5··on Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane
i like that it removes tailscale proprietary.

if that is goal then why not go 100% open source to eliminate the ts derp control as well and get full sovereignty?

like netbird, openziti, zerotier, etc.

gz5··on FDA Approves Drug Poised to Transform Care for Pancreatic Cancer
https://archive.is/HaZDP
gz5··on The New MCP Roadmap
agree. it seems there are two streams and they could diverge or converge?

1. workloads use existing credentials support RFC 7523 and OIDC discovery, 'trust the trust (credentials) which has already been established'. basically extend current dominant NHI paradigm.

2. DPoP mandate a signed proof for each request. so tie credential to a client-held key and specific request detail or context. viable to do at scale with #1, or does it diverge (e.g. because most #1 methods as most are not designed for DPoP?

gz5··on Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders
may have been rushed by hugging face being unable to use claude to debug or fix their breach, because there isnt detail on new guardrails put into place to protect against anthropic's initial concerns of wide distribution?

separately, it is interesting they are adding an oem type offer:

>We’re working with our cybersecurity technology and services partners to integrate Claude Mythos 5 into the products and services defenders already use to secure their software.

anyone know the shape of those contracts, e.g. pure tokens/usage or more of a traditional licensing or oem type structure?

gz5··on The Amazon tax
fraud and/or trademark infringement.

i only play a laywer on HN but seems categorically different than the safe harbor dmca which protects youtube etc since google has full control?

same for the amazon case. amazon for fraud and/or tm infringement.

the buyer of the ads as well in both cases but of course those are smaller pockets to empty.

it needs to be done legally but i will say that ads can benefit startups and small companies wrt building awareness against brands which already have it - so i dont think 'ads are the scourge of the earth' but of course rule of law needs to apply.

gz5··on Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking
tcp/ip itself is the ultimate backdoor, similar to the pstn backdoor in the post.

genai doesn't change that anytime soon?

gz5··on Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief
what does belong on the internet in a post-mythos world?

one argument: only services which need to be available to unauthenticated endpoints should be default reachable.

all other services should be default unreachable (no data plane until authorized ...then use internet and other networks to establish the connections).

yes, that is not always easy. it is much more possible than it used to be.

and arguably we now need to commit to the tradeoffs of default unreachable services.

gz5··on Rayfish, Peer-to-peer mesh VPN with no server to trust
3 vpn segments:

1. foss, p2p-only, no server or intermediate nodes to trust (rayfish)

2. foss, brokered if necessary with all nodes self-hosted (openziti, nebula, some wireguard variants)

3. non-foss, mix of p2p and brokered, host some of the nodes yourself (openvpn, myriad of wireguard variants/wrappers like tailscale, headscale, netbird, netmaker)

why is #3 so much more popular?

gz5··on Iroh 1.0
yes, openziti includes a full mesh, programmable overlay. agree not all apps need that.
gz5··on Iroh 1.0
the closest comparison is openziti:

+ iroh and openziti can both be app-embedded

+ so the app developer embedding in their service is a good use case for both

+ openziti is used for services in which scale and security are critical

+ whereas iroh allows participation from parties which don't have any prior relationships - which can be very convenient

gz5··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
there are many paths towards ROI and ruin. but towards ROI:

+ LLM-powered robotics, autonomous, IoT, smart manufacturing

+ LLM-powered biotech, healthcare, genetic engineering, medicine

+ Recursive model improvement

+ Multiply the # of devs (software truly eats world)

+ Exponential increases in model performance / cost decrease (algorithms, power, infra, chips, architectures, etc.)

gz5··on When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems
and the US govt often helps facilitate gambling during downturns so we could see even more direct and indirect promotion of the problem. examples:

+ in stagflation of 70s/early 80s - states create state-run lotteries to help fix their budgets

+ 2008 great recession - states legalize casinos to recover lost tax revenue and prevent folks from traveling out of state to gamble

+ C19 - states fast track the legalization of mobile sports betting and online casinos to secure immediate tax revenue

gz5··on FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers
my instinct is open source is part of the answer. the market monetizes with differentiation on the open source base, support, hardware, etc. vibrant enough market = the foss is secure (always a relative term) and continues to evolve, partially paid for by the companies who are monetizing
gz5··on Study: 'Security Fatigue' May Weaken Digital Defenses
Absolutely. Easier said than done, but the best security is structural security - as near to invisible for end users as possible. This needs to be the goal, imo, even if not fully achievable.
gz5··on Some Things Just Take Time
>Nobody is going to mass-produce a 50-year-old oak. And nobody is going to conjure trust, or quality, or community out of a weekend sprint.

absolutely although i wonder how different 'trust' is in the culture of tomorrow? will it 'matter' as much, be as cherished, as earned over the fullness of time?

i suspect it is a pendulum - and we are back to oak trees at some point - but which way is the pendulum swinging right now?

gz5··on The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild
NYC aqueduct from the Catskills is wild too, especially if you like the effect on NYC pizza and bagels.

Great articles have been written on the engineering but I like this one from 1909 showing the perspective of the time:

https://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/dnaque.Html

gz5··on Rowan County Chair Engages with Citizens Against AI DC Project
>The Rowan County Commission meeting included a rare sight, County Chair Greg Edds standing in front of the dais addressing the audience after public comment (something he had never done in his 12 year history according to the article).

articles like this makes me wonder - does the "AI" in "AI data center" amplify concerns beyond 'normal' concerns around commercial and residential real estate development projects?

on one hand, i feel it is partially the media reporting on it more than in the past, but then these articles and anecdata about meetings like this across the country make me feel there may be other differences?

note - in the article, the data center wasn't even on the agenda, nor is a deal in place and yet the unprecedented discussion:

>“I want to be clear about this, so watch my lips. There is no data center deal,” Edds said. “We have made no offers on any data centers. No data centers have made any offers to us. We are not speaking to any data centers.”

gz5··on OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)
>That’s juicing growth. Facebook style

yes, the sycophant noted by Om, but also:

+ asking you (prompting the human?) to keep the convo going in very specific ways

+ seemingly more personalization each day

both unfortunately crowd out the long tail which LLMs might otherwise help us explore, but of course the algorithms prefer putting us in positive feedback loops in echo chambers we like (and are conditioned to like)

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