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confused-deputy

4 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 2 claims, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  When the old word fits unmodified
  essay draft 2026-07-11 · ai-agent-security, confused-deputy, toctou, cross-time-bridge, capability-based-security

Everything else

• Old security vocabulary and the AI agent — reuse, conflation, and the standard that names none of it
  topic map 2026-08-01 · ai-agent-security, toctou, confused-deputy, lost-update, aisvs
• By 2026 security writers apply Hardy's "confused deputy" frame directly to AI agents holding aggregated credentials steered by attacker-controllable natural language
  claim budding Tier 2 2026-07-09 · ai-agent-security, confused-deputy, prompt-injection, capability-based-security, cross-time-bridge
• Norman Hardy's 1988 paper named the "confused deputy problem" — a compiler with two sources of authority tricked into overwriting a billing file
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-09 · capability-based-security, confused-deputy, computer-history, access-control, norman-hardy