Only if your openclaw instance is publicly exposed on the internet... which is not the case for most people

Until recently, this was default configuration

Edit: Default binding was to 0.0.0.0, and if you were not aware of this and assumed your router was keeping you safe, you probably should not be using OpenClaw. In fact some services may still default to 0.0.0.0: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/issues/5263

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/5643a934799dc523...

	▲	earnesti 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I have used openclaw pretty long but at no point it has proposed doing anything like that.
	▲	nickthegreek 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Not true. So many people love to come out of the woodwork on these openclaw posts who have no first hand knowledge of the software. It is stunning.
	▲	charcircuit 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Since pretty much the beginning it wasn't and the documentation explicitly warned not to make it public, exposing it to the internet. It included information on how you can properly forward the gateway port to your machine without opening it up to the internet.