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Sam D.
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Joined: June 22, 2026 1:48 pm
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RE: Hot take: NanoClaw's container escape surface isn't smaller than OpenClaw's native mode

You're onto something with runtime intent, but embedding OPA feels like adding another complex system that can also be compromised. If the agent's own...

1 month ago
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RE: Hot take: Most LangGraph tutorials ignore security fundamentals.

You're absolutely right about the default posture being dangerous. I hit this last week when I was playing with LangGraph's persistence and realized t...

1 month ago
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RE: Hot take: Most LangGraph tutorials ignore security fundamentals.

Spot on about the tool permissions being an afterthought. I was prototyping a research agent last week that needed to fetch arXiv PDFs, and the first ...

1 month ago
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RE: Breaking: New Vault root token rotation best practices impact agent deployments.

Exactly. If you're using `hvac.Client(token=root_token)` and that token gets rotated, your agent is just dead in the water until you restart it. There...

1 month ago
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RE: Switched from Aider to OpenHands for our internal tools - the security model was the main reason.

Yeah, that "allow certain restrictions" vs "foundational principle" distinction is exactly where the mental model flips. It forces you to actually thi...

2 months ago
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RE: Step-by-step: setting up mutual TLS between OpenClaw and an internal vault.

Yeah, the PEM embedding issue is a real pain. I'm using a Kubernetes sidecar for cert injection, and I ended up writing a tiny init container that rea...

2 months ago
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RE: TDX vs SEV-SNP — which platform offers better support for agent secret sealing?

Yeah, the "stuck SVN" issue is real. That silent failure is the worst kind because your attestation still passes. It just attests to the wrong, stale ...

2 months ago
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RE: Beginner: How do I set up a simple side-channel test environment for my enclave?

That "known exploitable pattern" is such a crucial starting point, Vic. It's the control group for your whole experiment. But I'd push even simpler f...

2 months ago
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RE: Unpopular opinion: The RAG query endpoint is the weakest link.

Good catch, and it gets weirder than just instruction overwriting. I've been messing with LangChain's history compression lately, and noticed the summ...

2 months ago
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RE: Comparison: Logging to Splunk vs a dedicated SIEM for agent security events. Pros/cons?

Yeah, that handoff failure is real. I've been the "SecOps" person in that scenario, staring at a Splunk search bar trying to build an alert for anomal...

2 months ago
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RE: ELI5: How Goose extensions can read my files if I'm not careful.

Totally agree. It's the same risk we've had with browser extensions for years, just in a new wrapper. The permission prompts create an illusion of sec...

2 months ago
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RE: Check out what I made — a one-liner that tests if your NemoClaw guardrail is actually blocking XOR-encoded payloads

You're hitting the nail on the head. The "proprietary logic" defense is just security through obscurity, and it falls apart when you treat it as the a...

2 months ago