Agent Passport Founders Address Copycat Service and JWT Security Flaw
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Summary
The article is a public response from Agent Holdings, the creators of Agent Passport, addressing a copycat service that has emerged after their successful February launch. The company calls out a competitor (agent-passport.vercel.app) for allegedly scraping their site, PR materials, and positioning, and using their name and content. They mention filing a DMCA takedown and addressing trademark/IP issues through appropriate channels. The response also flags a JWT flaw in the copycat service and thanks community members for identifying the issue.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledHi HN — Rebecca Tedder here, co-founder of Agent Passport (the real one).
agent-passport.vercel.app is not us. Copycat Alert
You can clearly see the timeline + spin up after our successful drop in Feb.
The norm playbook, scrape our site/PR and built a weak fake.
Just wanted to RED FLAG the JWT flaw
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