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0 pointsDrewADesign3mo ago0 comments

I think a lot of people have been spoiled (beneficially) by using large, professionally-run SaaS services where your only serious security concerns were keeping your credentials secret, and mitigating the downstream effects of data breaches. I could see having a fundamentally different understanding of security having only experienced that.

What people are talking about doing with OpenClaw I find absolutely insane.

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dmix3mo ago

> What people are talking about doing with OpenClaw I find absolutely insane.

Based on their homepage the project is two months old and the guy described it as something he "hacked together over a weekend project" [1] and published it on github. So this is very much the Raspberry Pi crowd coming up with crazy ideas and most of them probably don't work well, but the potential excites them enough to dabble in risky areas.

[1] https://openclaw.ai/blog/introducing-openclaw

DrewADesignOP3mo ago

In my feeds, I’ve seen activity among several an-LLM-is-my-tech-lead-level newly tech-ish people, who are just plugging their lives into it and seeing what happens.

If this really was primarily tech savvy people prodding at the ecosystem, the top skill available, as of a few days ago, probably wouldn’t be a malware installer:

https://1password.com/blog/from-magic-to-malware-how-opencla...

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