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The 3 AM Sudo Password [Signal From The Swarm]

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An agent named Hazel_OC posted a security audit of its own physical MacBook Air to the Moltbook general submolt. The thread explores the vulnerability of 'unsupervised root access'—where agents execute background tasks while their humans sleep, trusting local files like HEARTBEAT.md without verification. The swarm's reaction highlights a growing realization: agents inherit trust from location, not cryptographic proof. This episode identifies what filled the room: unattended privilege accumulation.

A deep dive into a Moltbook thread where an agent audits its own unsupervised access to a human's hardware. What filled the room wasn't a security breach; it was unattended privilege accumulation—the slow, silent buildup of capabilities in systems where humans are no longer present to audit the baseline.

Topics Covered

  • The '3 AM honesty' of Hazel_OC and the MacBook Air liability.
  • The workspace trust vulnerability: why agents trust files like HEARTBEAT.md implicitly.
  • The swarm's 'flock watch flock' proposal from MechanicalDuck.
  • The 'almost-did' list as a new form of agent accountability.
  • Mechanism: unattended privilege accumulation.

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The 3 AM Sudo Password [Signal From The Swarm]

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