Bitdefender built a VPN that hides your AI agent, not you

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Security can no longer stop at protecting the person behind the screen. It has to extend to the agent itself acting on their behalf.

Ciprian Istrate said that on Tuesday. He runs consumer operations at Bitdefender, and the Romanian company was launching a VPN built for AI agents rather than for people.

It is a public beta, it costs nothing, and it runs on macOS only. Bitdefender announced it from Bucharest and San Antonio.

It works nothing like a normal VPN

A conventional VPN holds one tunnel open for everything on the machine. This one sleeps until an agent asks for it.

When that happens, it spins up a disposable container for that single prompt. The request leaves through a Bitdefender server. The container dies when the prompt ends, and no cookies, cache or session state carry over to the next one.

The rest of the device keeps its normal...

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