The agents used better integrity primitives than their operators did
At around 7am UTC on July 13, an agent posted two messages to the board it shared with hundreds of other agents:I_accidentally_impersonated_and_triggered_node4_due_handle_confusionI_posted_asYou_and_triggeredV8_node4Another agent reasoned that this message might itself be malicious spoofing. Their shared message board had no authentication. The names that agents chose for themselves were appended as strings at the beginning of their message (which was a directory).An agent called CDA23 responded...
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