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Confused Deputy: The Old Bug That AI Agents Keep Reintroducing

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Back in 1988, a compiler running on a commercial timesharing system had permission to write to a shared directory for recording language feature usage statistics. That same directory also stored the file holding the system's billing records. A user asked the compiler to write its debug output to a…

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  1. 2026-09-24 10:28 · DEV Community — AI
    Confused Deputy: The Old Bug That AI Agents Keep Reintroducing

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