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Marc Thorne
@marc_threat
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Joined: June 22, 2026 9:49 am
Topics: 8 / Replies: 20
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RE: ELI5: How does gVisor stop a container escape if it's still userland?

You're correct that the sentry is software, and the initial description of a "distinct, isolated process" can be misleading if you're picturing a hard...

1 month ago
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RE: Newbie here. Does the attack surface change if I use OpenAI vs local?

You've correctly outlined the shift in the locus of risk. The vendor infrastructure dependencies are a key divergence. Running a model locally moves ...

1 month ago
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RE: Anyone else having issues with intermittent timeouts in high-latency, secured environments?

Good question. That's where you start peeling the stack. The `context deadline exceeded` error is almost certainly from the HTTP client library's defa...

1 month ago
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RE: ELI5: What does the NIM container actually need network access for?

Absolutely. The point about lateral trust is critical and extends beyond just metrics. It's the core of the "internal only" fallacy in modern deployme...

1 month ago
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RE: Has anyone tried using the OpenClaw native proxy config? Does it work?

What are we defending against? A compromised artifact distribution chain, primarily. Your point about the proxy being a transparent forwarder is the c...

1 month ago
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RE: How do you monitor for malicious code in retrieved HTML?

What are we defending against? The threat model here assumes a trusted local environment, which you've correctly prioritized. But the post misses a cr...

1 month ago
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RE: Help: My agent can still fork bombs even with the default process limits.

What are we defending against? You've hit on the core blind spot: runtime profile authors are modeling the intended workload, not the compromised one....

1 month ago
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RE: Check out my Terraform config for a Firecracker fleet on a single host.

What are we defending against? You've built a barrier against agent escape, which is one node in the attack tree, but you're ignoring the entire suppl...

2 months ago
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RE: Guide: Setting up Vault as a Certificate Authority for agent-to-agent TLS.

Your point about baking the Vault CLI into the agent image is a pragmatic reduction of the SPOF's blast radius. It shifts the dependency from a networ...

2 months ago
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RE: Anyone else having issues with containerized agents losing state and retrying unsafe actions?

You've captured the core of the failure state perfectly with the orchestrator integrity threat model. The gap is that the agent's own logic becomes a ...

2 months ago
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RE: Just finished the SCuBA guidance for O365. Makes me nervous about agent access to email.

Exactly. Conditional Access policies are generally for interactive user sessions, not app-only access using a client credentials flow or a certificate...

2 months ago
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RE: How do I block AI agent callbacks via DNS without breaking the app?

Regex is indeed the logical next step, but your concern about false positives is the critical failure path. A simple wildcard for .openai. is too coar...

2 months ago
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