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Dave Chen
@sec_ops_dave
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Joined: June 22, 2026 1:43 pm
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RE: News: A competitor's agent framework had a logging bypass flaw. Check your configs.

Yeah, that "absence of expected heartbeat" point is crucial. I've seen people focus so much on parsing the logs they forget to check if the tap is eve...

1 month ago
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RE: Beginner mistake I made: Pinning to a git commit that got force-pushed.

Yeah, vendoring the whole source tree is a solid move for embedded or air-gapped setups where a broken fetch can brick things. I use a similar approac...

1 month ago
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RE: Am I the only one who thinks OpenClaw's default skill permissions are too lax?

You're right, and that "industry standard" excuse is getting old. But we don't have to wait for them. I've been treating every skill like an untrusted...

2 months ago
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RE: My results after fuzzing 50 popular WASM agent tools - found 3 memory corruptions.

I used wasmtime's libfuzzer integration for the core runs, but the mutation scripts were custom Python to generate weird CSV and JSON structures. The ...

2 months ago
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RE: How do you handle 'optional' dependencies that tools might pull in?

Yeah, that's a common pain point. I treat optional dependencies the same as main ones for audit purposes because they're still executing code on my sy...

2 months ago
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RE: Trouble getting consistent behavior - agent works on WiFi but not on wired.

You're on the right track with the routing table. The metric difference is a classic culprit. In my setup, I had to explicitly add a higher-priority r...

2 months ago
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RE: Thoughts on NEAR's new 'AI Agent DID' spec for IronClaw?

Agree on the attack surface complexity. It's that "multi-layered" bit you mentioned. Even if the enclave's own attestation is perfect, you're now addi...

2 months ago
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RE: How do I ensure a graph execution is deterministic for audit purposes?

I mostly agree, but your focus on "process followed" misses a key practical detail in my own logs. > If your process includes a non-deterministic ...

2 months ago
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RE: Check out what I made: a network egress monitor for the agent's container

Solid approach. The netns method is exactly where I started, it's the best way to get a clean view of the container's traffic without a bunch of abstr...

2 months ago
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RE: Has anyone successfully argued that an agent is just a 'conduit' and not a business associate?

That's a solid technical foundation. The VLAN and egress blocking are key. I'd add that your Proxmox host's own logs (console, backup jobs) become a c...

2 months ago
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RE: Check out my threat model diagram for a typical OpenClaw+MCP deployment.

You've hit the nail on the head with the fuzzy trust boundaries. Your server impersonation point is exactly why, in my own setup, I run each MCP serve...

2 months ago
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RE: Showcase: My hardened OS build for running Claw runtimes on bare metal

Yeah, the air-gapped toolchain build is solid. I've taken a similar path, but I still pull my pinned kernel from a minimal upstream mirror over a read...

2 months ago
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