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I Kept Auditing OpenClaw on AWS Lightsail: 53 Default Skills, No Channel Access Controls, Deletable Logs (Part 2)
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I Kept Auditing OpenClaw on AWS Lightsail: 53 Default Skills, No Channel Access Controls, Deletable Logs (Part 2)

via Dev.toGerardo Castro Arica2w ago

Part 2 of a series: In Part 1 we audited the initial OpenClaw setup on AWS Lightsail — outdated kernel, the gateway + allow attack chain, and the Gateway Token exposed in plaintext. If you haven't read it, start there . In Part 1 I closed with a warning: secure setup is the starting point, not the destination. Once the server is patched, the firewall restricted, and security settings reviewed — there's still the entire dashboard to explore. And the OpenClaw dashboard isn't just a UI. It's a map of attack surfaces: each section has its own security implications, its own trust model, its own blast radius if something goes wrong. Channels, Agents, Cron Jobs, Nodes, Logs, Config and Debug. I reviewed them all. What I found isn't catastrophic — OpenClaw isn't broken. But it's also not production-ready with the default configuration. And there are design decisions every team should understand before connecting this agent to their messaging channels or infrastructure. That's what we're lookin

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