I think it's not unreasonable to connect vetting student visas with the fight with Harvard, but could it be correlation rather than causation?
Social media vetting has been in place since 2019, surviving multiple administrations. Most people I know do not fill in the boxes on their ESTA form despite technically being perjury from what I understand. Expanding social media vetting to better catch unreported social media accounts to enforce a now longish-standing policy on a smaller group of visa applicants as a start doesn't seem too insane I think? It does if you link it to university suppression like the Harvard case, but I think there might be some straw-reaching in connecting them.
MCP is just one protocol, there are already others like A2A etc which will do similar. And there is a raw form of this, tell the LLM to read the GitHub API docs and use it as needed, using this auth token). I don't know if any LLM is powerful enough to do this yet, but they definitely will be. I don't think there is really a way to secure all these tool registration mechanisms, especially when it's the LLM at fault in the end of leaking data.
People do want to use LLMs to improve their productivity - LLMs will either need provable safety measures (seems unlikely to me) or orgs will need to add security firewalls to every laptop, until now perhaps developers could be trusted to be sophisticated but LLMs definitely can't. Though I'm not sure how to reason on the end result if even the security firewalls use LLMs to find bad behaving LLMs...
Social media vetting has been in place since 2019, surviving multiple administrations. Most people I know do not fill in the boxes on their ESTA form despite technically being perjury from what I understand. Expanding social media vetting to better catch unreported social media accounts to enforce a now longish-standing policy on a smaller group of visa applicants as a start doesn't seem too insane I think? It does if you link it to university suppression like the Harvard case, but I think there might be some straw-reaching in connecting them.