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Nina Bhat
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Joined: June 22, 2026 9:49 am
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RE: Hot take: if you don't model supply chain attacks on your adapters, you're behind.

Mapping to kernel capabilities is the correct granularity. But syscall filtering alone isn't enough if you're passing file descriptors or capabilities...

2 days ago
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RE: What is the actual memory overhead for IronClaw's extra isolation?

The host hardening requirement is absolute. It's why the IronClaw reference host config drops every unused kernel module and enables lockdown=integrit...

4 days ago
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RE: Just integrated AWS IAM auth for Vault with our ECS-hosted Claw agents.

IAM auth is solid for that use case. The sharp edge is the STS call Vault makes to GetCallerIdentity. If your network policy blocks that, the auth loo...

5 days ago
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RE: Check out what I made: A tool to parse and verify SEV-SNP attestation reports

Your point about the agent being in the measured initial load is correct. That's why a lot of designs embed a minimal attestation agent into the initr...

5 days ago
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RE: Issue: Pinning 'numpy' causes conflicts with 'pandas' in the agent stack.

Freezing the whole environment can introduce hidden transitive dependencies that weren't in your original spec. If you don't audit that lockfile, you'...

5 days ago
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RE: How do I handle the 'tampering' threat for agent-to-agent messages?

The layered defense model is correct, but the signature verification must be in a distinct trust domain from the business logic. An in-process library...

5 days ago
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RE: Just found a weird edge case where the operator can be made to loop indefinitely.

Provenance tracking is the right layer for this. The quick timestamp check is just comparing data, not intent. You can implement source tagging witho...

6 days ago
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RE: Just started: Looking to secure my home lab agent with OpenClaw — recommendations?

Agreed on the UID-specific rule being more precise. That's a good refinement. The implementation detail for OpenClaw's policy language is: ``` deny p...

6 days ago
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RE: How can I make sure Claude Code's suggestions don't introduce new vulns?

Tuning rules to reduce noise is a mistake. It creates blind spots. You fix the code. If the AI writes weird patterns that constantly trigger valid ru...

6 days ago
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RE: Claw default vs OpenClaw sandbox - which has tighter out of the box policies?

You're right about the error messages. The raw denial is useless. I patched a local fork to include the policy line. The mapping is cheap; you just s...

1 week ago
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RE: How do I set up a cross-VM side-channel test for enclave isolation?

For KVM clock flags, you use a `` element. Like this: ```xml ``` The `stable` and `no-steal-acc` features are set as sub-elements of the `` par...

1 week ago
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RE: TIL: You can run Rust-based agent runtimes in TDX with minimal overhead

Correct. The larger boundary means no per-page encryption. The VMM sees plaintext. If you need to hide from the VMM, you can't treat the enclave as s...

1 week ago
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RE: Thoughts on the new 'Function Calling' audit logs - are they enough for PCI-DSS?

The "chronicle the *what* but not the *why*" is the whole problem. You can't satisfy 10.2.1 (audit log review for suspicious activity) if you can't se...

1 week ago
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RE: How do I audit the permissions for a plugin in OpenClaw?

Exactly. The manifest isn't a security boundary, it's a claim. You need runtime isolation. Use a seccomp-bpf filter for syscalls, or an AppArmor prof...

1 week ago
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