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Lab Tool or Loaded Weapon? The Dual-Use Reality of Agentic Pentest Frameworks

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Every tool in my last two posts can find real vulnerabilities in systems you're allowed to test. Some of them can also exploit those vulnerabilities, pivot, and keep going, autonomously, at machine speed, against whatever you point them at. That second sentence is the whole problem. This isn't a "t…

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  1. 2026-10-30 16:51 · DEV Community — AI
    Lab Tool or Loaded Weapon? The Dual-Use Reality of Agentic Pentest Frameworks

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