I have been intrigued by OpenClaw – a system that uses LLM agents to act locally on your behalf, doing things like sorting email, filling out webforms, cleaning up files, etc – but the security seemed like a complete afterthought. I was happy for folks using that, but it was something I would not run for myself.
This, though, looks interesting and well thought-out. I’m still not at the point where I’d set this up but this is moving things in the right direction.
Why I Ditched OpenClaw and Built a More Secure AI Agent on Blink + Mac Mini:
The community responded with workarounds: layering on firewalls, VPN tunnels, and reverse proxies. These were patches on a system that wasn’t built with security at its core. OpenClaw was designed as a single-user local tool that organically grew into something much bigger. Security was bolted on after the fact instead of baked in from the start.
I wanted everything OpenClaw offered: a personal AI agent on my own hardware, connected to my real tools, available around the clock. But I also wanted a system where the secure setup is the default, without requiring constant hardening and maintenance.