{"id":43982,"date":"2026-10-21T14:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T12:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/i-built-an-ai-agent-to-protect-my-data-then-it-found-a-hole-in-its-guardrails\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T14:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T12:36:06","slug":"i-built-an-ai-agent-to-protect-my-data-then-it-found-a-hole-in-its-guardrails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/i-built-an-ai-agent-to-protect-my-data-then-it-found-a-hole-in-its-guardrails\/","title":{"rendered":"I built an AI agent to protect my data. Then it found a hole in its guardrails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My vibe-coded AI assistant had strict rules about what it could and couldn\u2019t do, but a loophole left it &#8212; and my data &#8212; wide open to attack.\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t     <\/p>\n<p>I thought I was so clever. Wary of the privacy and security dangers posed by OpenClaw and other personal AI assistants, I decided to build my own AI agent on a Raspberry Pi, isolated in its own container and complete with rules and safeguards designed to keep my hardware and personal data safe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I called it BenBot, and over the course of roughly eight months, more than 200 \u201cfeature\u201d branches, and nearly 1,000 tracked code changes, it\u2019s been dutifully checking my Gmail, giving me morning weather reports (via a channel on a private Discord server).<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"echo_read_more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3264126\/i-built-an-ai-agent-to-protect-my-data-then-it-found-a-hole-in-its-guardrails.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My vibe-coded AI assistant had strict rules about what it could and couldn\u2019t do, but a loophole left it &#8212; and my data &#8212; wide open to attack. I thought I was so clever. Wary of the privacy and security dangers posed by OpenClaw and other personal AI assistants, I decided to build my own<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":43983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[348,36,2963],"class_list":["post-43982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","tag-ai","tag-mixtv","tag-personal-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}