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[–] 98 points 5 months ago (4 children)

How could any person with some programing literacy event thinking about installing openclaw. A malware ridden by critical bugs

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    I don't think there's anything wrong with running Openclaw. What is way too brave for my taste is giving it access to accounts with your personal data, or the filesystem in your computer. That's a disaster waiting to happen.

    I run it in an isolated server, and it doesn't have access to my data - if it goes tits up, it deletes unimportant stuff only. If anyone gets access to the credentials in it, it's a bunch of budget-limited API keys, so they can spend all of $4 on openrouter. Maybe the riskiest bit is its Google account. I went with the approach of giving it its own Google account, so that it can create docs and calendar events and then add me, rather than getting access to my Google account. But then again... That account has no payment info, nothing that I would be mega worried if it got leaked...

    Sure, it might limit the usefulness a bit, but I think installing something like this is only acceptable if you sandbox it and don't let it access valuable information. Going full mad scientist on something as "alpha" as this, letting it run wild with your info is nuts.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    I went with the approach of giving it its own Google account, so that it can create docs and calendar events and then add me, rather than getting access to my Google account.

    I wonder though: if Google can link this account to you as its actual owner, I wonder if there's a risk if the bot does something against the ToS?

    I hope you have backups of your Google account..

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  • [+] -17 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    I program medical devices for a living and I have openclaw and nanobot running at home. AMA.

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    Because i want to work on meaningful things that benefit people directly.

    Because i want to unterstand the capabilities and limitations of openclaw-like agents. LLMs aren't going away, better be proactive and learn what the hype is about.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    here's hoping you are just trolling, because people with that kind of approach to medical devices should be in prison.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago

    Believe it or not, this is the first time for me being suspected a troll, but I start to see the appeal when people are getting so worked up while being so far off the mark.

    Sorry to disappoint that I am still on the loose. Then again prison is probably better than doing one more D-FMEA.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Ah, doing your best to break the Therac-25's record, I see.

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  • [–] -3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    That's why unit and integration tests shouldn't be written by Copilot.

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