Security

Email overload is a modern disease. Hundreds of emails a day, most of them noise. Newsletters you forgot you subscribed to. Marketing emails disguised as personal messages. Bank statements. Gas bills. The occasional important email buried in the flood. I tried fixing this with a simple ignore list. It didn’t scale. This is the story of how I built a multi-layer email filtering system that replaced hardcoded bash patterns with intelligent scoring, security scanning, and adaptive learning. ...

Running an AI assistant with shell access, file system permissions, and messaging integrations is powerful. It’s also a meaningful security surface. You’re giving a language model the ability to execute commands, read files, and respond to messages on your behalf. This isn’t theoretical risk. If you configure OpenClaw carelessly, you’re handing strangers the keys to your system. Here’s how to run OpenClaw safely: keep it updated, audit it regularly, and vet plugins before you enable them. ...