Timeline:
18+ hours ago: Received notification of exposed keys (linked to a circleci-eb user).
We deleted the IAM user and all associated keys. Confirmed remediation in the support case.
Current status: Total silence. Support agents keep saying "the specialized team is looking into it," but we have had zero updates while our business is dying.
We have already rotated all credentials and verified that no other unauthorized access exists. We are a small team and this 18-hour delay with no human response from the security team is devastating.
Does anyone at AWS have advice on how to get a human to actually review a resolved security flag?
Case ID: 177385077300217
Any help or visibility is greatly appreciated."},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ropedia"],"value":"Ask HN: AWS account restricted 18h despite remediation (Case 177385077300217)"}},"_tags":["story","author_trollderiu","story_47438003","ask_hn"],"author":"trollderiu","children":[47438430,47439619,47451908],"created_at":"2026-03-19T12:13:02Z","created_at_i":1773922382,"num_comments":2,"objectID":"47438003","points":14,"story_id":47438003,"story_text":"Our startup (Qcart) is currently facing a 100% production outage across multiple countries. AWS Trust & Safety restricted our account 18 hours ago due to an exposed circleci access key.
Timeline:
18+ hours ago: Received notification of exposed keys (linked to a circleci-eb user).
We deleted the IAM user and all associated keys. Confirmed remediation in the support case.
Current status: Total silence. Support agents keep saying "the specialized team is looking into it," but we have had zero updates while our business is dying.
We have already rotated all credentials and verified that no other unauthorized access exists. We are a small team and this 18-hour delay with no human response from the security team is devastating.
Does anyone at AWS have advice on how to get a human to actually review a resolved security flag?
Case ID: 177385077300217
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When an AI agent calls execute_wire_transfer today, there's no cryptographic proof it happened, no proof who authorized it, and no tamper-evident record of the outcome. Editable logs and unverified timestamps don't cut it when real money or infrastructure is on the line.
I've been building TrustAgentAI \u2014 an open-source accountability layer that wraps MCP tool calls in a 3-phase signed receipt protocol:
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The result is a Dispute Pack: a self-contained bundle that proves what happened, when, and who authorized it. Designed to satisfy auditors, insurers, and legal arbitrators \u2014 not just dashboards.
What's different from existing MCP security tools:\nScopeGate, ai-runtime-guard, and similar tools focus on preventing unauthorized actions at the permission level. TrustAgentAI focuses on proving what happened after the fact \u2014 non-repudiation for the cases where permissions were granted but accountability is still needed. These approaches are complementary.
Technical stack:
Ed25519 via @noble/ed25519 (audited, zero-dependency)\nJCS canonicalization per RFC 8785 (deterministic hashing across platforms)\nDAG ledger with Merkle batching (each entry's hash includes parent hashes)\nAnti-replay via per-(did, nonce) uniqueness with TTL + 5s clock skew tolerance\nRisk budget enforcement (D4) at proxy level before execution\nHTTP server exposing /accept, /executed, /dispute/:traceId
The proxies are sidecars \u2014 they intercept existing MCP JSON-RPC traffic without changes to agents or tools.\nbashnpm install @trustagentai/a2a-core\ntypescriptimport { ProxyAGateway, ProxyBGateway } from "@trustagentai/a2a-core/proxy";\nimport { DAGLedger } from "@trustagentai/a2a-core/ledger";
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The JCS + SHA-256 hash target rule (spec \u00a74) \u2014 is there a better canonicalization approach?\nL2 anchoring strategy \u2014 Base vs Arbitrum, and sync vs async anchoring?\nWhether the Dispute Pack format is sufficient for real legal/insurance use cases"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ropedia"],"value":"TrustAgentAI \u2013 Cryptographic receipts for MCP tool calls (non-repudiation layer)"}},"_tags":["story","author_kirillostrovsky","story_47421489","ask_hn"],"author":"kirillostrovsky","children":[47427947,47434251,47477382],"created_at":"2026-03-18T04:04:52Z","created_at_i":1773806692,"num_comments":0,"objectID":"47421489","points":6,"story_id":47421489,"story_text":"MCP solves connectivity between agents and tools. It doesn't solve accountability.
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I've been building TrustAgentAI \u2014 an open-source accountability layer that wraps MCP tool calls in a 3-phase signed receipt protocol:
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I started my project because existing photo-sharing sites didn't do what I wanted. Like a lot of parents, I'm busy and don't have a lot of time to organize photos. I made a site that automatically organizes in a nice layout that scales easily to several years' worth of photos. For anybody who has a backlog of photos that tell a story (kids' activities, travel, etc.) I strongly feel I've made the best site.
The problem is I've chosen the worst market. Yes, there are lots of parents out there with piles of photos on their hard drives. Yes, they're interested in sharing them. But no, their hair is not on fire. Photo sharing is one of many good things they'd like to get around to some day.
I have about ten people actively posting photos to the site, but they're all people I've directly talked to and/or shown the site to. What does it take to go viral?
Or where do I turn next to find the right customers? What I've ended up with is a lot like a blogging site, but with much better photo support. But bloggers tend to pick one platform and stick with it. Where do new bloggers come from?
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Is there some other way to go viral with busy parents that I haven't thought of?
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I have about ten people actively posting photos to the site, but they're all people I've directly talked to and/or shown the site to. What does it take to go viral?
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I've integrated with Piclens for slideshows. I can send traffic their way; perhaps I should get them sending traffic my way. Are there other services I could integrate with that might boost my marketing/sales efforts?
Is there some other way to go viral with busy parents that I haven't thought of?
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The only way to solve a problem with this agency in my case is to reach a human being with this agency and this is the only way to do it. Problem is, it's nearly impossible to get into the hold queue. I've called them, brute-force style, over a dozen times over and over again and been hung up on after the pre-recorded crap every single time. The only way to get into the hold queue is to get lucky. Which means I need a way to automate this thing for brute force so I can finally get a human.
Anyway, I've got an iPhone 12. I'd rather not have to sit here and dial, wait, hang up, dial, wait, hang up, etc. all day long trying to brute force my way into a hold queue to get to a human being, which is unfortunately the only possible way to solve my problem with this particular state government agency.
I'm not aware of any programmable phone technology interface that I could use as a one-off to automate my iPhone's phone interface for something like this, hence why I'm asking HN. Would you folks happen to know of a tool I could use for something like this? Doesn't need to be anything super formal, certainly not looking to build a product, and it only needs to dial ONE number. It just needs to be able to listen for a pattern and hang up and repeat if it hears that exact same pattern, and if it hears a variation from that, NOT hang up. Ideally something I can script from my MacBook Pro to control my iPhone, then put the thing on speaker while I go off and do more important tasks, like clean the kitchen or something.
I'm chasing down non-technology options (state senator's office) but in the meantime, I'd like to see if there's a way I can automate brute forcing my way through their broken phone system. Anyone know of any scriptable way to do this? Thank you!"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ropedia"],"value":"Ask HN: Scriptable iPhone Redialer Interface? (For reaching state govt.)"}},"_tags":["story","author_MrWiffles","story_33629097","ask_hn"],"author":"MrWiffles","children":[33631080,33633497,33648020],"created_at":"2022-11-16T19:28:31Z","created_at_i":1668626911,"num_comments":3,"objectID":"33629097","points":5,"story_id":33629097,"story_text":"I'm trying to get into the hold queue for a certain state government office that is (very) badly run. Long story short, you call the number and it puts you through around ~3.5 minutes of pre-recorded nonsense only to be told "We're sorry, but we have too many calls to help you at this time. Please call back later." and then hang up on you. Not place you in a hold queue, literally hang up on you. This is not a joke, exaggeration or lie, this is quite real.
The thing is, if you get REAL lucky, you MIGHT just make it through to the hold queue after all. There's a slight variation in the way the pre-recorded message plays out in the first minute or two if you happen to make it through, but it's all based on unknowable and unpredictable call volume from potentially hundreds of thousands of other people all at the same time and the line is only open M-F 8-5.
The only way to solve a problem with this agency in my case is to reach a human being with this agency and this is the only way to do it. Problem is, it's nearly impossible to get into the hold queue. I've called them, brute-force style, over a dozen times over and over again and been hung up on after the pre-recorded crap every single time. The only way to get into the hold queue is to get lucky. Which means I need a way to automate this thing for brute force so I can finally get a human.
Anyway, I've got an iPhone 12. I'd rather not have to sit here and dial, wait, hang up, dial, wait, hang up, etc. all day long trying to brute force my way into a hold queue to get to a human being, which is unfortunately the only possible way to solve my problem with this particular state government agency.
I'm not aware of any programmable phone technology interface that I could use as a one-off to automate my iPhone's phone interface for something like this, hence why I'm asking HN. Would you folks happen to know of a tool I could use for something like this? Doesn't need to be anything super formal, certainly not looking to build a product, and it only needs to dial ONE number. It just needs to be able to listen for a pattern and hang up and repeat if it hears that exact same pattern, and if it hears a variation from that, NOT hang up. Ideally something I can script from my MacBook Pro to control my iPhone, then put the thing on speaker while I go off and do more important tasks, like clean the kitchen or something.
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