DrWhax

professional troublemaker - researcher on surveillance/spyware

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2026-07-28 10:56:21 UTC

I know Mastodon hates LLM's and AI. So here goes!
I recently got access to trusted access of cyber capabilities of both openai and anthropic, which also allows you to weaponize security vulnerabilities.
The speed at which these parrots can find bugs and be creative enough to exploit them is staggering.
I recently pointed an LLM at an kernel fix that was reachable by an unprivileged namespace on Debian and it fully weaponized it, without too much me prompting it in the right direction, in about 7-9 hours.
I don't think open-source and companies will know what's coming for them once these open-source weight models will have broader reach and get better at exploiting vulnerabilities on a massive scale as anyone can access them.
The bottom line I think is, you cannot patch faster than the attackers can easily chain all kinds of vulnerabilities together and just move laterally on an incredibly fast pace.
I've started reporting vulnerabilities to all kinds of projects and the majority have trouble or patching issues found. There's not enough maintainers, or there's simply none anymore.
I've been getting quite worried about what our future will look like for data privacy. I think outright not running an LLM over your codebase to find critical security vulnerabilities because of your moral stance will keep us more insecure.
Please run an LLM over your code base if it's internet facing or something critical, we thank you!
Can't wait for the discussions on this!

2026-04-27 12:39:17 UTC

2 meter sessies, dusted off their archives and uploaded the full session from Sparklehorse with three not previously unaired songs, Cow, Sad and Beautiful World and Saturday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9h_wVH-Um8

2025-12-27 20:16:53 UTC

The GPG Fail talk at #39c3 was so good. Chapeau!

2025-03-10 13:35:05 UTC

"France pushes for law enforcement access to Signal, WhatsApp and encrypted email"
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366619707/France-pushes-for-law-enforcement-access-to-Signal-WhatsApp-and-encrypted-email#:~:text=Law%20permits%20police%20use%20of%20spyware&text=Police%20will%20also%20have%20powers,the%20intervention%20of%20a%20judge