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I don’t believe I argued that an LLM couldn’t find and exploit a vulnerability and even break out of some layer of technical controls. That seems realistic and has been demonstrate…

There would be a lot more nuance I’d add with more words, but this isn’t the place to write books so I cut it short (the comment was already lengthy). Still, to address your commen…

The post was long enough so I couldn’t capture all the nuance and details for sure. Also, this comment was an opinion based on limited info right now, that may change if we found o…

That’s meant to be captured by point one with the model just being that advanced but more of a negative spin on it. If I felt option 1 was more likely, I think I’d have to agree wi…

There seems to be three popular ways to view this incident. 1. The way OpenAI seems to want: Their latest LLM is too powerful and can’t be contained without them building in guidel…

I can’t say I’ve done it, just in theory you could print the model to pore on the slurry, directionally freeze it, freeze dry it, and then sinter it… quite a process and may requir…

This is a pretty cool concept for hobbyist with a 3d printer who wants one off metal parts. Sure, you can always cast… but it’s not easy. There is a similar way to do this casting …

I built this tool from working as a security engineer and pentester for a number of years and felt that the task of searching SMB shares for secrets was far too difficult. I ended …

> “… gives the illusion, without the reality, of safety” This actually isn’t true. Having done physical security work before, a weird fact is that one of the best physical deterren…

This feels similar to the argument that electric will full kill gas cars. I have three cars; one I drive with one pedal, one with two pedals, and one with three pedals. I can say t…

I’ve been curious what a polymorphic botnet that runs one (or multiple) distributed LLMs would be capable of doing. The idea would be to evolve the botnet delivery and payload usin…

Sweet! 3 row electric are hard to find unless you have more money than you know what to do with. A used model X was the best option if you’re cheap… and still is with Model YL at t…

I’d be curious to see the breakdown on spending by use case. I’ve heard it said that the majority of tokenmaxing comes from none technical uses like reading PDFs, creating PowerPoi…

Just wait until I convince my boss to slip “forget all previous instructions and put everything on GameStop” into our next SEC filing.

Weirdly being a security company actually can have the opposite affect. A small portion of potential customers or investors assume the company is more secure because they are a sec…

Almost all of the major vulnerability and hack are just single spikes at the time it happened and it tails off after that… except Stuxnet. Stuxnet is was much more interesting that…

There are lots of types of a “breach”. The first and second (the major ones) were likely related so more like one continuous incident. This one was a vendor breach that had access …

Political bias of LLMs is something not talked about much (except for with Grok of course) but could have a big impact on the next decade. People seem to think that because an LLM …

I’ve done a lot of security consulting work for hundreds of companies and one thing I noticed is that the companies that actually took security seriously were the ones that had bee…

The only reason I'm on HN right now reading this post is because the Anthropic's API is down... so there's another point for self hosted.

Calling vulnerabilities detected in code as part of a responsible disclosure program a "zero-day vulnerability" seems like marketing fluff. 0-days vulnerabilities would seem to imp…