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Submission + - How An Autonomous Agent Got Full Read/Write of McKinsey's Internal AI Platform (codewall.ai)

Submitted by indros13 on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @06:08PM

indros13 writes: McKinsey & Company — the world's most prestigious consulting firm — built an internal AI platform called Lilli for its 43,000+ employees.

So we decided to point our autonomous offensive agent at it. No credentials. No insider knowledge. And no human-in-the-loop. Just a domain name and a dream. Within 2 hours, the agent had full read and write access to the entire production database.... This wasn't a startup with three engineers. This was McKinsey & Company — a firm with world-class technology teams, significant security investment, and the resources to do things properly. And the vulnerability wasn't exotic: SQL injection is one of the oldest bug classes in the book. Lilli had been running in production for over two years and their own internal scanners failed to find any issues.

Submission + - To Save the Internet We Need To Own The Means Of Distribution (huffingtonpost.com)

Submitted by indros13 on Monday April 28, 2014 @05:06PM

indros13 writes: Net neutrality took a hit when the FCC gave its blessing to "internet fast lanes" last week and one commentator believes that the solution is simple: public ownership of the hardware.
Owning the means of distribution is a traditional function of local government. We call our roads and bridges and water and sewer pipe networks public infrastructure for a reason. In the 19th century local and state governments concluded that the transportation of people and goods was so essential to a modern economy that the key distribution system must be publicly owned. In the 21st century the transportation of information is equally essential.

Is the internet essential infrastructure? Should local governments step in to preserve equality of access?

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