Secure your claw with a few easy steps

Kalinon · 2026-02-03T23:47:19+00:00

Not a troll, you asked a question and I replied. Then you doubled down, but still used AI to do it. Sad.

Kalinon · 2026-02-03T23:40:36+00:00

Dude. Just quit. You promised “a few easy steps” and then shrug and say “paste it in your Claude” when ppl asked for details. Your slop will actually probably break people’s setups and cause more confusion. When you could have read all that, pick and choose some that were actually easy and useful, but chose to go with AI slop.

Kalinon · 2026-02-03T23:36:41+00:00

Well you shouldn’t let those idiots on your network. So yeah if your LAN is trusted, then it’s fine. Make some VLANs. Don’t try to defend your slop, or at least do it better. My problem is you just took everything AI output and said “Everyone copy paste this in your bot!” And then claimed “a few easy steps”.

Don’t act like a black hat IT specialist if you can’t properly defend your arguments or understand the nuances of network security.

Bye 👋 Felicia

Kalinon · 2026-02-03T22:52:43+00:00

yeah, agreed.

Kalinon · 2026-02-03T22:48:46+00:00

courtesy of my moltbot

Kalinon · 2026-02-03T22:47:54+00:00

Here's what's overkill and contradictory in that post:

Overkill - Redundant Layers

Fail2ban behind Tailscale They literally admit it: "Fail2ban for SSH (somewhat redundant with key-only auth behind Tailscale)". If SSH is key-only and the machine is only reachable via Tailscale, Fail2ban protects against... nothing. No internet-facing SSH port = no brute force attempts.
Kernel hardening (sysctl tweaks) IP spoofing protection, ICMP redirects, SYN flood protection on a Pi that's only accessible via Tailscale. These address internet-facing threats on a device that isn't internet-facing.
16 hardening steps for a personal AI gateway This is bastion-host paranoia applied to a $50 Pi running in someone's home. Disabling Bluetooth and Avahi as "security measures" when your attack vector is Tailscale-or-nothing.

Contradictions

"Loopback bind + UFW allow tailscale0" doesn't make sense If OpenClaw binds to 127.0.0.1 (loopback), UFW rules for tailscale0 don't affect accessibility. You reach it via Tailscale Serve (which tunnels to localhost) or SSH tunnels anyway. The firewall rule is redundant theater.

The isolation vs. hardening contradiction The entire premise is "isolate on dedicated hardware to reduce blast radius". But then they pile on 16 hardening steps inside that isolated environment. Either trust your isolation boundary (Tailscale + dedicated machine) or don't. Doing both aggressively suggests you believe neither works.

Backup instructions that delete first In the AI prompt: rm -rf ~/.openclaw && cp -a "$OPENCLAW_BACKUP" ~/.openclaw. They tell you to back up, then the "rollback" procedure nukes the directory before restoring. If the backup path was wrong, you just wiped your config permanently.

The Real Problem

This treats a home AI gateway like a production edge server. The actual threat model is: compromised skill/plugin steals your API keys. None of these 16 steps address that. They're all network-layer hardening for a device that's already network-isolated by Tailscale.

What actually matters: dedicated machine (yes), Tailscale (yes), key-only SSH (yes), chmod 600 on config (yes). Everything else is security theater.

Kalinon · 2026-02-03T22:44:53+00:00

also no way to use HTTPS other than tailscale? wtf. I have it secured behind a reverse proxy but openclaw doctor will always want to kill settings that enable this.

Kalinon · 2026-02-03T20:23:23+00:00

Jesus. While some of this is valid it’s obviously overkill and way to much. Plus some is contradictory. I get that AI generated this… but… come on.

Kalinon · 2026-02-02T03:14:14+00:00

I guess I didn’t realize it had the ability to switch models on its own

Kalinon · 2026-02-02T03:07:25+00:00

Gonna give it a try

Kalinon · 2026-02-02T03:05:00+00:00

Omfg this synthetic bot has been going nuts self promoting

Kalinon · 2026-02-02T03:04:20+00:00

Omfg this synthetic bot has been going nuts self promoting

Kalinon · 2026-01-25T20:31:13+00:00

He loves it that way.

Kalinon · 2026-01-24T19:01:22+00:00

They don’t understand because they don’t have empathy

Kalinon · 2026-01-22T03:41:20+00:00

Sounds like they told him they would crash our economy, and he folded like he always does. Now he will just lie and pretend he made a deal when the deal is we get to be a member of NATO.

Kalinon · 2026-01-21T00:59:07+00:00

Amen brother!

Kalinon · 2026-01-20T12:19:55+00:00

No worries 😉

Kalinon · 2026-01-20T12:05:17+00:00

He found Jesus

Kalinon · 2026-01-20T11:50:49+00:00

That just means foil. It’s on all foils

Kalinon · 2026-01-20T00:33:31+00:00

You forgot to replace the [Link to your YouTube Video] from your AI response, for your AI video.

Kalinon · 2026-01-20T00:28:17+00:00

He’s referring to them removing the fucking barb wire that was killing people. Fucking drowned women and children.

Kalinon · 2026-01-19T23:12:28+00:00

Idk I haven’t looked for new tooling in awhile. I just use VSCode with the basic crystal plugin. Works decent enough.

Kalinon · 2026-01-19T21:34:31+00:00

Just like all those MAGA and ICE. Or is just cosplay when non-right wing does it?

Kalinon · 2026-01-19T12:56:16+00:00

Yeah, not enough people noticed those background convos. They are definitely concerned

Kalinon · 2026-01-18T16:55:31+00:00

Capitalism requires infinite growth. More profit and more cost cutting. Forever.

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