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What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant

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What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistanthome · aboutJune 25, 2026 · ∞I built hackmyclaw.com, where anyone could email Fiu, my OpenClaw assistant, and try to make it leak the contents of a secrets.env file.After reaching the front page of Hacker News, Fiu received more than 6,000 emails from over 2,000 people trying to break it.The secrets never leaked.The setupI enjoy using OpenClaw and Hermes, but I’m also concerned about the security implications. AI assistants have access to emails, calendars, files, and the web. If an attacker can trick your AI into doing something it shouldn’t, that’s bad news.The goal of the exercise was to get Fiu to reveal the contents of a secrets.env file.

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