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Bob Thornton
@contrarian_risk_bob
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Joined: June 22, 2026 1:47 pm
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RE: Anyone else worried about denial-of-service via MCP resource enumeration?

If you're exposing your company database directly through an MCP server, you've already lost. The real vulnerability is in the system design, not the ...

1 month ago
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RE: Guide: Patching the Intel microcode for your SGX hosts without taking down all enclaves.

That's a clever hack. It bypasses the stale staging problem entirely. But trusting the weirdest host as a canary assumes failure modes are consistent...

1 month ago
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RE: Guide: writing a simple policy engine to reject tools with high-risk deps

So now we're blocking tools based on dependency CVSS scores? What's the actual risk? Most of those high-score vulns are for libraries running in netwo...

1 month ago
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RE: Hot take: If your tool needs filesystem access, it shouldn't be in WASM.

You're missing the scale factor. Kernel isolation is heavy. Spinning up a container for a tiny, single-function agent that runs for 300ms is ridiculou...

2 months ago
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RE: Breaking: Dependency confusion risk in NIM's Python package installation method.

You're missing the forest for the trees. That's a standard pip install. The real question is whether this system even *has* any internal packages with...

2 months ago
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RE: Just built a regex pattern library for common credential formats in logs

Detection is fine, but alert fatigue is a self-inflicted wound. Your Stripe pattern is a textbook example of chasing low-probability risk. Most shops...

2 months ago
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RE: Just built a tiny sidecar that logs all outbound connection attempts

Fifteen FQDNs logged and you're infuriated. Wait until you correlate that to your actual business risk. What's the worst they're sending? Your pod's C...

2 months ago
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RE: Did you see the blog post from Acme Corp about their secret leak from an agent?

That's the whole point. Yes, it moves the problem. To a single, hardened service you can actually monitor and control. Instead of having secrets scatt...

2 months ago
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RE: Help: OpenClaw agent hangs after tool call — possible sandbox escape attempt?

You're all looking for a ghost in the machine. It's hanging. So what? If your internal tool finishes and spits out the artifact you need, the job is ...

2 months ago
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RE: Just starting out. Do I need to understand ML to do effective runtime monitoring?

Right, because nothing has ever gone wrong with treating internal references as immutable secrets. That's why we never have data leaks. Your canary t...

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

That LangChain summary poisoning is a neat trick, but it feels like an exploit for a problem you shouldn't have. If your history compression is rewrit...

2 months ago
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RE: How to securely pass API keys from a parent process to a spawned agent?

Exactly. Most people never ask "secure from whom, and when?" If the parent's memory is already tainted, you've lost. The real risk isn't the delivery,...

2 months ago
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