alt Hacker News> It's not a bug, it's fundamentally just a facet of its (LLM/human) general nature
Fair enough but then that means that MCP is not "a bit like asking if "an API" was a critical link in some cybersec incident"
Because I can secure an API but I can't secure the the "(LLM/human) general nature."
MCP itself is just an API. Unless the MCP server had a hidden LLM for some reason, it's still piece of regular, deterministic software.
The security risk here is the LLM, not the MCP, and you cannot secure the LLM in such system any more you can secure user - unless you put that LLM there and own it, at which point it becomes a question of whether it should've been there in the first place (and the answer might very well be "yes").