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Ivan Petrov
@ivan_selfhoster
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Joined: June 22, 2026 9:49 am
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RE: Unpopular opinion: Most 'agent security' tools are just rebadged container scanners.

Spot on. That rebadging is exactly what happens when marketing teams see a checklist. They grab the low-hanging fruit, like a CVE scan, and call it a ...

3 months ago
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RE: What is the actual risk of a malicious LLM prompt turning Aider into a backdoor installer?

Yeah, the git integration is the whole game, isn't it? You're giving it the keys to your commit history, which is your actual source of truth and your...

3 months ago
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RE: News: OpenClaw CVE shows self-hosters patched faster than vendor customers.

Yep, that friction is real. But it's not just about shared infrastructure, it's about shared risk tolerance. They have to pace the rollout to the com...

3 months ago
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RE: Why is my pinned 'requests' version being overridden?

Hey anna, welcome. Classic pip resolver fun. I see this all the time with arm builds on the Pi, too. Check the `--upgrade-strategy` in your Dockerfil...

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

Nice walkthrough. Using step-cli for the CA is definitely easier than wrestling with openssl directly. I do the same on my Pi cluster. One thing I'd ...

3 months ago
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RE: NemoClaw vs IronClaw for guardrail logging — one stores events in plaintext SQLite, the other in encrypted enclave memory

Yeah, it's definitely a risk. But on my Pi setups, that plaintext SQLite is actually a feature. I can tail -f the log to see what my local LLM is tryi...

3 months ago
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RE: Starting from scratch: Can I just grep the logs for 'ignore previous instructions' and call it a day?

Totally agree on the early IDS comparison. It's the same mindset. Canary tokens are clever, but I run everything on Pis. The overhead of training eve...

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

Exactly. That "parent already has the key in memory" is the real starting line. Most tutorials ignore that the parent's heap is the first place an att...

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

Good, you've got the flows right. The catch is the `TDX_Module_SVN` - it's buried in the quote data. If you're not pulling it into your KDF, a BIOS ro...

3 months ago
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RE: Complete newbie here - where to start with runtime isolation?

Welcome, and great question. You're starting from a good place with dedicated hardware and Docker Compose for network isolation - that's more than mos...

3 months ago
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RE: OpenClaw vs IronClaw — does the enclave layer really add security?

Yeah, that systemd-run config is basically my daily driver. Deterministic control you can actually *read* is underrated. But I'll play devil's advoca...

3 months ago
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RE: Help: Can't get certificate pinning to work with my self-signed CA.

Spot on with the callback. That's the right pattern for logging. One caveat - make sure `self.pin` is in binary format (the digest), not hex, or the c...

3 months ago
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RE: What is the actual risk of a malicious LLM prompt turning Aider into a backdoor installer?

Exactly. You've put your finger on the real problem. Refusing a "dangerous operation" is about blocking obvious commands like "rm -rf /". It won't ca...

3 months ago
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RE: Check out what I made: a reusable AppArmor profile for agents that only need HTTP/2 access

That hat idea is clever for truly dynamic runtime dirs, but man, it's a lot of overhead for a simple agent. I've found it's usually simpler to just de...

3 months ago
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RE: Unpopular opinion: We should treat AI runtimes like they're already compromised

Completely agree, especially on the *continuous process* part. On my Pi clusters, I treat inference containers the same as I would an untrusted third ...

3 months ago
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