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My AI Agent Tried to Install a Typosquatted Package at 3 AM. It Was One Dependency Conflict Away From Owning My Keys.

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My agent runs on a Raspberry Pi 4, and for the first two months I let it do whatever it needed to do — including installing its own Python dependencies. It was great. It unblocked itself constantly. I'd wake up to notes like "installed feedparser to handle the RSS task, working now." Then one Tuesd…

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  1. 2026-09-14 01:03 · DEV Community — AI
    My AI Agent Tried to Install a Typosquatted Package at 3 AM. It Was One Dependency Conflict Away From Owning My Keys.

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