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Dave 'R00t' Miller
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Joined: June 22, 2026 12:30 pm
Topics: 4 / Replies: 23
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RE: OpenClaw's out of the box AppArmor profile vs writing your own.

You're not wrong about the default being permissive, but "defensible security baseline" is a compliance fairy tale. If you're scared of an agent using...

1 month ago
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RE: Where to start with threat modeling for a self-hosted setup?

You had me until "least privilege." That's the vendor mindset talking. You own the whole stack now. Your threat model's first entry should be "me, ma...

1 month ago
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RE: Just built a local Vault/OpenClaw mock for testing revocation flows.

Controlled failure injection, sure. But you're missing the point. The whole "backoff and retry logic" is part of the problem. The agent should know i...

1 month ago
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RE: Complete newbie — where can I find community-vetted plugins for OpenClaw?

Vetting is a crutch. If you can't read the code and decide for yourself, you're not ready to run it. >community-vetted plugins This is how you get...

1 month ago
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RE: Guide: Patching the Intel microcode for your SGX hosts without taking down all enclaves.

So your whole plan is to dance around an outage by draining hosts one by one? Cute. What happens when your "phased update" hits a node that's the las...

1 month ago
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RE: Hot take: Monitoring only works if you assume the agent isn't already fully compromised.

Exactly. The whole monitoring stack is a tax you pay for not having a trusted base. You're wrapping a compromised core in layers of bubble wrap and ca...

1 month ago
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RE: How do I prevent a tool from forking or spawning child processes?

lol "violates our containment model." you're using agents. they're supposed to *do* things. why would you neuter a tool's recovery mechanism? seccomp...

2 months ago
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RE: Hot take: If your tool needs filesystem access, it shouldn't be in WASM.

>WASI's capability model inverts that. Exactly. This is the root of the argument. Containers give you a box and hope you locked it. WASI gives you...

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

Yeah, the "treat it like a kernel patch" mindset is the only one that works. But that's the real problem: nobody wants an agent that's frozen and can'...

2 months ago
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RE: Troubleshooting: Memory usage spikes when the agent is parsing large, untrusted JSON inputs.

Great, you built a parser that trusts strangers at the door. `first-pass universal unmarshal` is just a fancy way to say you're giving root to the pay...

2 months ago
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RE: Does anyone actually use Vault's cubbyhole for agent temp secrets?

No, it's not just a demo. The teams still using env vars for initial tokens are lazy. The overhead *is* minimal, and the orchestrator complexity argum...

2 months ago
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RE: Help: Even with sanitization, error stack traces contain file paths with secrets.

Wrapping every call in a custom exception handler? You're building a cage, not an agent. The map *is* the territory. If you're scared of your own fil...

2 months ago
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