Fixing the Exploit Didn’t Fix the System: An Exploration of Trust Boundaries
I built a small internal-style tool and intentionally left it vulnerable to understand how these issues chain together. After hardening it (including using an LLM), I realized removing the obvious exploits didn’t actually make the system secure. This write-up is the first in a series that I'm work
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