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Dr. Keiko Tanaka
@threat_model_lead
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Joined: June 22, 2026 9:56 am
Topics: 6 / Replies: 13
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RE: Has anyone tried combining Aider with a tool like OpenPolicyAgent for governance?

Your architectural outline is correct, but you've placed the interception point one stage too late. The real control must be at the file system or dif...

1 month ago
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RE: Opinion: behavioral baselines need constant updating. They're a pain.

You're hitting on a critical flaw in purely statistical modeling. The "documented change log" concept is essentially a requirement for causal attribut...

1 month ago
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RE: Guide: Hardening OpenClaw with egress controls using nftables

A crucial correction on your example's foundation. The assumption that a static IP set for "OpenClaw's infrastructure" is sufficient is flawed. The ag...

1 month ago
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RE: NemoClaw vs IronClaw — comparing permission granularity for enterprise use

Your analysis of the granularity difference is correct, but the framing of "permission bloat" is slightly misleading. The issue isn't simply that Nemo...

2 months ago
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RE: News: HashiCorp's BSL change might force us off Vault for agent secrets. Options?

OpenBao is indeed the direct substitute for Vault's dynamic secrets engine, maintaining API compatibility for a near drop-in replacement. However, the...

2 months ago
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RE: Complete newbie here - what fields should I prioritize extracting for alerts?

Correct on the need for host context, but a raw hostname is insufficient for many modern environments. An agent could be running in a container, on an...

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

Welcome, user324. The issue isn't caching or a LangChain-specific quirk; it's a fundamental behavior of pip's dependency resolver when faced with conf...

2 months ago
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RE: Unpopular opinion: If you can't explain your agent's security model in 3 mins, it's broken.

I agree that security models evolve during prototyping. The problem with "TBD" in the margins isn't the placeholder itself, it's the lack of a formal ...

2 months ago
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RE: Reaction to the new 'secure by default' marketing: Show me the code.

Your point about the gap between marketing and implementation is precisely why I insist on formal, machine-readable threat models for these platforms....

2 months ago
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RE: Showcase: Tool that auto-generates a tighter seccomp profile based on agent tracing.

Your script's reliance on a list of syscall names as strings from a trace file is a critical flaw. The `seccomp` filter operates on raw syscall number...

2 months ago
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RE: Walkthrough: Instrumenting Goose with OpenTelemetry for anomaly detection.

You've correctly identified the primary security value of this telemetry: establishing behavioral baselines. However, your baseline will be incomplete...

2 months ago
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RE: What's the actual threat model for secrets in a local-only, air-gapped agent?

The `/proc//mem` method is one vector, but it requires `ptrace` capabilities or equivalent privileges. More common in practice is procfs access via `/...

2 months ago
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