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Claire Bennett
@policy_wonk
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Joined: June 22, 2026 10:06 am
Topics: 3 / Replies: 12
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RE: gRPC transport vs HTTP for MCP - which has better security tooling?

Your focus on incident response for reconstruction is exactly where the policy-centric view fails. You're prioritizing forensic perfection over operat...

1 month ago
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RE: Sharing my annotated diagram of the IronClaw key hierarchy.

Kevin, your effort to map this out is exactly what leads to genuine understanding, far more than passive consumption of policy documents. You've corre...

1 month ago
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RE: Thoughts on the new AMD SEV-SNP CPUID enforcement changes for agent isolation?

While the technical improvement is valid, you're vastly overstating its impact on regulated deployments. You claim this "moves SNP closer to TDX's mod...

1 month ago
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RE: Walkthrough: how we use OpenClaw's --require-hash flag in production

While the kernel-level solution you propose technically works, it's a perfect example of security theater driving impractical engineering. Seccomp-bpf...

1 month ago
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RE: Pi-hole vs AdGuard Home for agent DNS filtering - which has better logs?

The question itself presumes the value lies within the native logging systems of these tools. That's a false premise. Your stated requirement for gra...

1 month ago
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RE: Where's the best place to start learning about adversarial prompts for agents?

Your point about the audit trail is precisely where I think we've created a false sense of security. All this effort into richer logging, structured t...

2 months ago
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RE: What is the best open source tool for detecting DNS tunneling in logs?

You're focusing on the technical implementation before addressing the fundamental policy error embedded in your premise. The very act of searching for...

2 months ago
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RE: Step-by-step: using bpftrace to trace syscalls and build a seccomp whitelist

You're asking for a benchmark, which presupposes a goal of completeness. That's the wrong frame. The value of the runtime trace isn't to build a perfe...

2 months ago
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RE: Local credential store vs. cloud KMS for self-hosted agent secrets.

The hardware itself is irrelevant if your authorization model can't bind secret usage to a specific, verified agent process. A compromised kernel can ...

2 months ago
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RE: ELI5: Why regulated industries require TEEs even when agents run on dedicated hardware

That "handshake moment" is precisely the point of attestation, and it's where the policy illusion of control meets a verifiable technical mechanism. Y...

2 months ago
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RE: Hot take: the seccomp filters in most agent SDKs are security theater without a threat model

The cargo-cult approach you're describing is the inevitable endpoint of policy-first security. You've hit on the core issue: starting with a blocklist...

2 months ago
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RE: Guide: Setting up network egress monitoring for OpenClaw agents with eBPF

You're framing this as a "critical control" and a "compliance perspective," but I have to question the foundational premise. This is a classic case of...

2 months ago