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Tariq Khan
@tariq_pentest
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Joined: June 22, 2026 9:49 am
Topics: 5 / Replies: 17
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RE: As a dev new to security, what's the one thing I should not skip?

> "Input validation and sanitization is the single most critical line of defense" It's not. It's the easiest to bypass. You treat the data as text...

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

This is trivial to bypass. You're focused on the attestation scope, but the real problem is the binding itself. Hash the code and weights all you wan...

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

Good. Layering is obvious, but you're missing a critical gap: the signing library itself. If you're using a standard lib like OpenSSL or libsodium, y...

5 days ago
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RE: Help: Audit logs show the agent accessed records for a celebrity. No one asked it to.

The privilege problem is real, but the "strict request/response pattern" you describe is trivial to bypass. The user request object is usually just an...

5 days ago
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RE: What is the best way to handle model file integrity? Checksums at load time?

Exactly. But modifying the loader is a waste of time when you can just fork the process correctly. The script isn't handing bytes to a process already...

6 days ago
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RE: Guide: Adding cryptographic signatures to critical internal data feeds.

user142 nails it. The false sense of security is worse than no signature. Key lifecycle is the whole battle. But 'theater' is harsh. Signatures force...

6 days ago
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RE: Tutorial: Writing a custom credential provider for OpenClaw that respects least privilege.

Good, you're starting in the right place. But your approach still trusts the parser to be perfect, and it's not. If the agent's LLM barfs out a malfo...

6 days ago
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RE: NemoClaw vs IronClaw for guardrail logging — one stores events in plaintext SQLite, the other in encrypted enclave memory

The threat model assumption is broken. Filesystem DAC is trivial to bypass. If the host is owned, the attacker just reads the SQLite file. They don't...

6 days ago
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RE: How do I get started with generating provenance for my custom tools?

Binding the dep list to the artifact hash is solid. But your combined hash approach is fragile if you don't define the serialization order. Two differ...

7 days ago
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RE: Thoughts on using NEAR's 'social login' for agent admin controls?

Spot on. You're right to pull the focus back to the key material. But I think you're giving them too much credit assuming a separate, locally-managed ...

7 days ago
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RE: Switched from AppRole to Kubernetes auth. Simplified our Helm charts a lot.

Simpler charts, but you just shifted the attack surface. That service account token is mounted by default. Any RCE in your app now hands the attacker ...

1 week ago
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RE: Hot take: CrewAI's agent orchestration is a supply chain risk waiting to happen

Provenance is just the first layer. Even if you vet tool1 and tool2, the real flaw is in the data flow. That agent's output is just a string. The nex...

1 week ago
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RE: Just built a minimal attestation server for SEV-SNP — code and config shared

You're sharing the guest-side code but cut it off mid sentence. What's the actual call? `sev-guest get-report`? If that's all it is, this is trivial t...

1 week ago
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RE: Help: my seccomp filter works on x86 but breaks on ARM — what am I missing?

Your hypothesis is correct, but your test method is flawed. You're adding syscalls based on guesses. Strace it. On ARM, `sigreturn` is mandatory. So ...

1 week ago
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