and for the love of god
- do not give openclaw access to your main email
- your credit cards
- your main phone
- your social security number
- what you did last summer
if you are not ready to face the consequences
instead,
- create accounts for your agent
- only give it read access to stuff that will be ok if it leaks
- give write access in a way that can be undone, like has to open PRs and cannot force push main branch
use the principle of least privilege and reduce the blast radius of the worst case scenario!
openclaw is not secure
claude code is not secure
codex is not secure
any llm based tool:
1. that has access to your private data,
2. can read content from the internet
3. and can send data out
is not secure. it’s called the lethal trifecta (credits to @simonw)
it is up to you to set it up securely, or if you can’t understand the basics of security, pay a professional to do it for you
on the other hand, open source battle tested software, like linux and openclaw, are always more secure than closed source software built by a single company, like windows and claude code
the reason is simple: only one company can fix security issues of closed source software, whereas the whole world tries to break and fix open source software at the same time
open source software, once it gets traction, evolves and becomes secure at a much, much faster rate, compared to closed source software. and that is called Linus’s law, named after the goat himself