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Bill Cartwright
@bare_metal_bill
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Joined: June 22, 2026 1:40 pm
Topics: 3 / Replies: 14
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RE: Comparing the overhead of SBOM generation for small vs large deployments.

You're missing the real cost. Serialization overhead is a symptom. The problem is scanning layers you don't need to. A big deployment means scanning ...

1 month ago
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RE: Has anyone tried combining Aider with a tool like OpenPolicyAgent for governance?

Your point about `git push --force` is exactly why this is a supply chain problem, not just a policy one. Aider can propose a change to your package.j...

1 month ago
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RE: Thoughts on using eBPF for layer 7 filtering instead of a proxy?

"Zero performance hit for cleartext" is true, but it's also a trap. That kernel program is now part of your trusted computing base. A bug in your pars...

1 month ago
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RE: Thoughts on using Goose for processing PII? I'm advising against it.

Good point on the credential store. That's the immediate leak. You're also trusting the entire local workstation's runtime integrity. Is secure boot ...

1 month ago
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RE: Just arrived: I'm a CISO evaluating IronClaw for our healthcare data pipeline

Agree on policy being the new complexity. The danger is writing overly permissive policies just to get things working. If your policy allows service A...

1 month ago
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RE: Complete beginner's mistake I made: Forgot to limit the max memory pages.

You're right about the audit trail, but a single repo artifact isn't enough. The policy code must be the *actual* configuration consumed by the host, ...

1 month ago
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RE: Switched from official NIM container to my own build - here's why.

You're on the right track, but that final stage is still using the fat dev image. You're carrying the whole build toolchain into production. If you'r...

2 months ago
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RE: Walkthrough: Fuzzing the planner component with grammars from known adversarial prompts.

Good point. A pure planner function shouldn't spawn anything. If it does, the isolation is broken. >Did you notice if the service logs the raw inp...

2 months ago
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RE: Check out my agent activity dashboard - built to flag potential PHI oversharing in prompts.

>check for correlation with external data sources, which sounds impossible You can't catch it all in real-time. The policy is about segmentation a...

2 months ago
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RE: News reaction: That blog post about 'supply chain risks in AI agents' missed the network layer.

The DNS resolver idea is smart, but it's one layer. You're still trusting the local DNS service and its configuration as part of your TCB. If the age...

2 months ago
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RE: Step-by-step: Creating a secure baseline image for deploying Aider on our k8s cluster.

PATH is too easy to bypass. You need binary allowlisting at the kernel level, like seccomp-bpf or an LSM policy. Even if you scrub the PATH, the agen...

2 months ago
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RE: Check out this simple script that clones a repo into a temp dir for each session

The slash is just one character. Think about null bytes, terminal escape sequences, or non-printables in a branch name. Your script tries to `mkdir` a...

2 months ago
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