Historical Reflection on Computing Security: From MS-DOS Vulnerabilities to Modern Protection
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feigewalnuss
A baker's-dozen of insight crammed into one ring.
Summary
The article reflects on the evolution of computing security from the MS-DOS era to modern systems, using OpenClaw as a starting point for discussion. The author contrasts the insecure, unrestricted environment of DOS where programs could directly access system resources with the layered security approaches that eventually emerged. The piece serves as a historical reflection on computing security evolution rather than a technical guide to building AI agents.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledOpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS.
The sad days of DOS. Any program could peek and poke the kernel, hook interrupts, write anywhere on disk. There was no safety.
The fix wasn't a wrapper, or a different shell. It was a whole different approach to what was being done.
The world already had rings, virtual memory, ACLs, separate address spaces. Thirty years of separations that Unix had from the start were ignored, and it finally caught up to the world of DOS.
I'm not saying DOS wasn't wildly popular. Oh my god. I remember one dark night in a bar in Chicago, a drunk Swedish
Article URL: https://www.flyingpenguin.com/build-an-openclaw-free-secure-always-on-local-ai-agent/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831437
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