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Fraud is creating verification headaches as criminals use stolen fingerprints for a fee. Ecommpay's Willem Wellinghoff said firms misplace revenue on tech instead of addressing human vulnerability. Better internal education and communication to employees and merchants is an underutilised focus for prevention.

Agentic development for cloud-native software depends on verification, which is fundamentally a runtime problem. The author argues that verifying agent behavior requires runtime checks rather than static analysis alone. This shifts how developers must approach building reliable autonomous systems.
BootProof is a tool that inspects local repositories, builds evidence-based run plans, and executes only what it can justify. It observes HTTP health and writes a signed attestation for success or failure. The tool refused to run a remote repository because remote code requires explicit consent.
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