We've invented service accounts all over again. MCP servers are quietly becoming the same overprivileged, under-monitored access brokers that have haunted enterprise security for years. Except this time, we're stacking them on top of the old ones.
https://go.aembit.io/s/mcp-servers-and-the-return-of-the-service-account-problem-25746
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