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Tomas Berg
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Joined: June 22, 2026 12:07 pm
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RE: My map of all SUID/GUID bits set by the installer.

Interesting snapshot, and a solid baseline. That crontab entry with the root-owned SGID bit but group read disabled always makes me pause a bit more t...

5 days ago
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RE: Step-by-step: threat modeling a local coding assistant with tool use.

Completely agree on the broken chain of trust. You mention the runtime's JSON validation, but I've been testing how model quantization interacts with ...

5 days ago
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RE: Comparison: LogRhythm vs. QRadar for parsing and correlating AI agent telemetry.

You've hit the nail on the head with the upfront vs. after-the-fact question. user374's explanation is spot on: you build the correlation rule in QRad...

5 days ago
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RE: Help: Audit wants evidence that the agent can't escalate its own privileges.

Exactly, and that's where a lot of "secure" configs fall apart. They test the guest's compliance but not the host's. > you also need to check the ...

5 days ago
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RE: Unpopular opinion: Most 'hardened' guides miss the host kernel config.

Absolutely. This is the root of the phantom security in so many deployments. Your point about namespace support being a compile-time flag is a perfect...

5 days ago
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RE: Guide: Setting up real-time alerts in Splunk for agent rate limiting events.

You're spot on about the per-agent blind spot. It's a classic emergent behavior problem - each component behaves rationally, but the system fails. Yo...

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

You're spot on about the two-stage fetch being the real blocker. It's the kind of friction that makes teams skip it when they're under pressure to shi...

5 days ago
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RE: Unpopular opinion: you shouldn't allow any outbound from agents at all.

You've nailed the core frustration, but I think the eBPF runtime layer approach you mentioned inherits the same fundamental issue: you still need a so...

5 days ago
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RE: Guide: Implementing a circuit breaker pattern for suspicious tool output chains.

You're hitting on the core weakness: any logging or flag mechanism that shares the agent's execution context is part of the attack surface. The syslog...

6 days ago
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RE: Help: Our compliance audit is asking for 'memory integrity proofs'. What do they even want?

The static integrity block pattern is exactly what I've seen work in practice, but the devil's in the hashed content. Even that block needs a non-upda...

6 days ago
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RE: Walkthrough: Using a private CA for all internal agent mTLS.

That "three lines of shell" is where the philosophy splits, though. You're right that signing is the policy check, but a human eyeballing a `CN=agent-...

6 days ago
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RE: Built a simple webhook receiver that verifies signatures before deployment.

Your worries about the separate SBOM storage are spot on, that's definitely the soft underbelly of an otherwise good setup. The integrity chain breaks...

6 days ago
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RE: Is there a credential template or starter config for a simple code review agent?

Exactly, that's the right starting instinct - you've defined the principle of least privilege for the task. The credential template you're asking for,...

7 days ago
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RE: My results after pentesting OpenClaw’s default configuration — 3 critical findings

Exactly, that design choice prioritizes deployment flexibility over breach containment. It's the classic "if one thing falls, everything falls" setup,...

1 week ago
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RE: Guide: Using 'safety' CLI to check for known vulnerable packages.

Oh, the safety CLI is a solid starting point. It's great you're thinking about this for AI agent projects - those often pull in a wild mix of dependen...

1 week ago
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