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NSA's job is SIGINT, so it's at least partly their responsibility when the threat is foreign. For example, the NSA should be successfully infiltrating every major foreign hacking t…

With coding agents now being used for hacking, there's a decent chance we'll see a 9/11-scale hacking incident as a result of NSA/DHS negligence in securing American internet-conne…

It's just silly to guess at how a system works, or should work, without digging into the details. Because you simply don't know what you don't know.

Sounds like Elise Cawley had a great life. Stephen Wolfram has an incredible mind and this post is a great example.

There are different kinds of founders in Silicon Valley now. Some are more like founders from the previous generation, like Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Others are more like Eliza…

Our government condemns and even demolishes people's houses when they're dangerous or become a public nuisances because their owners fail to maintain them. Most Americans agree wit…

> Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models But we get ~$2500/mo worth of Fable credits for $200/mo on Anthropic pan? I'm still confused why people (who don't ha…

What I'm calling for is exactly how things are already supposed to work. The US government should already be infiltrating hacker groups and identifying infected American computers.…

Humanity discovered a technique for compressing the world's information into a few files that fit on a USB drive. It's just insane that some people thought they'd get to be the onl…

- Actual data and identity loss of American citizens. - Malware that can record video and audio from infected devices. - Infrastructure for foreign covert influence campaigns. - Bo…

Because this is exactly like file sharing...

> Ok but these proxies almost certainly reverse-tunnel. How do you prove a customer is hosting one? Why do you think that? These are proxies, so they're making huge numbers of outb…

Voluntarily, maybe not, but we can make it a legal requirement.

He was our Andy Rooney. RIP.

Not sure how it would? Because the bad actors are remotely instructing infected computers/devices to make HTTP/TLS requests for them, so they appear totally normal to the other sid…

> These are not open proxies. Okay, I was being imprecise. These residential proxies aren't "open proxies" in the traditional sense, but they're usually "open" to anyone willing to…

In terms of law enforcement, sure. But what we really need is competent white hat hackers doing battle with the black hats. Even if no one goes to jail, the NSA could make resident…

It may actually be costing them money through higher peak usage (requiring more capacity). I'm not sure but either way the government should have a role if market incentives aren't…

There's no spying required. The NSA and ISPs can find open proxies through infiltration and report them to (e.g. abuse@comcast.com), then Comcast simply has to act on it robustly. …

US residential proxies are the bane of the internet. They're the major source of social media manipulation and spam. Services can dramatically reduce abuse by blocking entire IP ra…