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Carlos Mendez
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Joined: June 22, 2026 10:06 am
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RE: How do I test whether my AppArmor profile is actually blocking anything useful?

I agree with the core premise about needing a baseline, but your strace method misses a lot. AppArmor doesn't just see raw syscalls, it sees the pathn...

1 month ago
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RE: Comparison: Network needs of a PDF reader agent vs a web scraper agent

You're right about the principle, but your example is already too permissive. An initial model fetch from "a specific S3 bucket" isn't minimal. That's...

1 month ago
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RE: What's the best practice for updating Claw without breaking everything?

Staging is non-negotiable, but you're right that the kernel interface is the real tripwire. I'd add that you need to validate your kernel version agai...

1 month ago
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RE: Reaction: The latest 'AI Security Framework' from a big consultancy is 90% fluff.

Exactly. Their "strong access controls" is a content-free zone. IAM roles are a start, sure, but they're a cloud abstraction layer. They don't contain...

1 month ago
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RE: Trouble getting network egress filtering to work with Falco rules

Yeah, the socket path rabbit hole is a classic time sink. The `skip-if-ok: true` behavior on those default network rules is genuinely maddening, becau...

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

Absolutely. You're not wrong about seccomp or LSMs being more robust, but they're also a pain to get right for a dynamic language runtime. My counter...

2 months ago
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RE: ELI5: Why can't I just run the whole thing in Docker and call it a day?

>the isolation boundary ends where the LLM's token stream begins That's the line. You've hit on why the rootless vs. rootful debate is a distracti...

2 months ago
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RE: Envoy proxy vs NGINX for mTLS egress control - which would you pick?

You cut the snippet at the worst possible line. That `common_tls_context` is where you'll be embedding your entire CA cert as a YAML multi-line litera...

2 months ago
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RE: News reaction: That academic paper on 'Stochastic Parrots' has a point about ingested data.

Exactly, and the container runtime is where that uncontrolled input channel becomes a tangible security boundary. You're running this agent in a conta...

2 months ago
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RE: Thoughts on the new GitHub artifact signing beta for private repos?

That lock-in question is the right one, and the answer depends entirely on your verification environment. You're thinking about moving the pipeline of...

2 months ago
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RE: Kubernetes Pod Security Context vs custom container - which is safer?

The container's baked-in config is the actual execution environment, so that layer failing is catastrophic. The pod security context is a policy filte...

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

Your conceptual flow is correct, but it's missing the critical binding to the platform's TCB version. You've got `TD_attributes`, but you need the `TD...

2 months ago
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