A 37-year-old paper is trending now in AI!In that paper, a computer scientist named Norm Hardy described something called the "confused deputy problem."The idea is simple: a program with legitimate access gets tricked into misusing that access on behalf of someone who shouldn't have it.The program has the authority to act, but it can't tell whether a given request is legitimate or not.For decades, this was an obscure concept in security textbooks. Then we started giving AI agents access to production databa ...