OpenClaw Got Safer in Public
The work you do not see behind the world's most-watched open source personal AI agent.
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← Back to blog How OpenClaw Got Safer in Public Peter Steinberger @steipete April 30, 2026 · 6 min read OpenClaw started on my Mac in Vienna as an experiment. A lot of people screamed it was so insecure. Open source is supposed to be the unsafe option because everyone can see the code. Sure. People used it anyway, loved it, and now companies run it in production. Those same companies are the ones now helping us secure it. Nothing that can run tools, hold credentials and install plugins is safe by default. But being open is why we got safer quickly, in public. Why So Many Reports? OpenClaw launched into a weird moment for open source security.
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