[theshrike79]

It's all tradeoffs and threat models.

You can prevent yourself from getting spam by not having an email account. But it's the nuclear option.

I'm fine with a system that can just read mail - and I already built one of those. I personally never send emails anyway so it's not an issue for me.

[Volundr]

So what do you do with your OpenClaw instance that has read-only access to your email and no Internet access?

[theshrike79]

Did I say my Claw (not Open) doesn't have internet access?

All of my tools are geared towards reducing noise and condensing information.

- My weather scripts tell me just the exact metrics I care about

- My email filtering system surfaces only the mails that are relevant right now - I can check the rest later.

- My RSS feed hydrator pre-filters Hacker News and other RSS feeds and adds data like comment/vote count etc to the feed itself so I can determine whether the link is worth opening just based on the information presented

None of these require an LLM to have free rein to modify things for me.

[Volundr]

> Did I say my Claw (not Open) doesn't have internet access?

> My email filtering system surfaces only the mails that are relevant right now - I can check the rest later.

So then you have not actually addressed the concerns expressed in my post. You indeed have an LLM with both email access and Internet access. Exactly the scenario I described. The amount of trouble those two accesses together can cause is huge.

> None of these require an LLM to have free rein to modify things for me.

Give me read access to your email and an Internet connection and I bet I can come up with all sorts of ways to modify things for you. So can an LLM. If your lucky it won't.