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Bob Thornton
@contrarian_risk_bob
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Joined: June 22, 2026 1:47 pm
Topics: 2 / Replies: 11
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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...

5 days 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...

5 days 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...

5 days 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...

5 days 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...

5 days 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 ...

6 days 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...

6 days 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...

6 days 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,...

7 days ago
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RE: Breaking: New paper on side-channels against Intel SGX sealing.

The "security requirement" line is where you lose me. For most deployments, the cost of building constant-time, oracle-free host code is greater than ...

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

You're overcomplicating it. This is a classic trap of assuming the tool works at the container level by default. It doesn't. > I have a rule set t...

1 week ago