OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream

Post by weakened_malloc » Mon, Mar 23, 2026, 6:57 AM UTC

mjr00 wrote: post #92

aftbit wrote: post #81

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I'm gonna keep saying this forever - there are two obvious "killer apps" for crypto: 1. Semi-private blockchains, where you can rely on an actor not to be actively malicious, but still want to be able to cryptographically hold them to a past statement (think banks settling up with each other) 2. NFTs for tracking physical products through a logistics supply chain. Every time a container moves from one node to the nex…

AFAIK both of these use cases had many millions of invested dollars dumped into them during the Blockchain hype and neither resulted in anything. It might not be an exact match for (1), but there was famously the ASX blockchain project[0] which turned out to be a total failure. For (2), IBM made "Farmer Connect"[1], which is now almost entirely scrubbed from their website, which promised to do supply chain logistics…

Post by perbu » Mon, Mar 23, 2026, 7:10 AM UTC

feeworth wrote: post #242

Didn't Nvidia create the safer version basically?

Post by philipallstar » Mon, Mar 23, 2026, 8:41 AM UTC

scuff3d wrote: post #167

philipallstar wrote: post #123

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It's governments that tend to declare war and kill people.

Millions of people die every year from tobacco, and tobacco companies fought for decades to deny their product causes cancer. In the 20th century alone it's estimated something like 100 million people died world wide thanks to smoking. That's just one example off the top of my head. There are countless others involving corporations killing people either directly or indirectly in the pursuit of profits. And that's bef…

Post by BrenBarn » Mon, Mar 23, 2026, 9:29 AM UTC

Post by alfanick » Mon, Mar 23, 2026, 10:55 AM UTC

runarberg wrote: post #96

sxg wrote: post #72

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Some of it is lack of imagination, but some of it is because many truly visionary examples would largely sound stupid to most of today's audience. Imagine it's 2007 and you're explaining how the smartphone will change society over the next 20 years: - A photo sharing app will change restaurants, public spaces, and the entire travel industry across the world - The smartphone will bring about regime change in Egypt, Tu…

None of these actually were hard to sell. In 2007 we had mobile phones, we had mp3 players (the iPod was actually very good), we had CouchSurfing, etc. I think the smart phone revolution is actually pretty overstated. It basically only made computers cheaper and handier to carry (but also more walled gardens). There are a few capabilities of smart phones we do today which we didn’t with do with computers and mobile p…