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Is a secure AI assistant possible?

OpenClaw was uploaded to GitHub in November 2025 and went viral in late January, extending LLMs into email, browsing, and local files with larger security risks. The post names prompt injection as the central threat, says there are likely “hundreds of thousands” of OpenClaw agents online, and notes a public warning from the Chinese government. The key point: the article says there is no silver-bullet defense yet, and the truncated body does not disclose the full mitigation details.

Why it matters: This is not a launch, but it clears HKR-H/K/R: the question is a strong hook, the piece adds concrete scale plus 'no silver-bullet' defense, and it hits the agent-builder safety nerve. Featured, not p1, because the article does not disclose reproducible mitigations.

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