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The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
In the latest episode of "behold the power of Mythos" from The Hacker News - Claude Mythos AI Finds 10,000 High-Severity Flaws in Widely Used Software
I distilled it so you don't have to.
That 10,000 count didn't even survive until paragraph 3.
Ah fuck. 1726. But wait, a bad infographic has entered the ring!
Ok now we're talking.
Wait, what? Why those? Why only those?
You couldn't even cherry pick the valid ones?
Where did the other 1259 go? Maybe this other part of the flowchart will go better...
Most of them just spammed at open source maintainers. Right. Maybe Anthropic's media release has the goods!
Slightly lower than the 1900, but ok, whatever.
1587 is lower than the infographic's 1726 confirmed positives.... But 10% of 10000 high sev is still something, right?
I'm sure those maintainers enjoyed that 16% high+ sec rate based on Mythos' own estimations. But wasn't that 1129 the bulk of your reports?
530 is only a third of the reports you made to maintainers...
The infographic says 88.
I'd ask if they were massaging their financials like they massaged 65 advisories, but we know they are.
23,019 potential vulnerability candidates of all severities, 65 advisories. If you printed the code out and drunkenly threw darts at it you'd probably hit the same level of accuracy.
All that it tells me is that if you spent the same amount of resources on just fuzzing randomly picked OSS codebases you'd probably get better value for your buck.
I’ve seen a handful of security people claim different kinds of yields with some of this shit. I haven’t gone to read up in depth but I wouldn’t be too surprised a lot of them run around with unstated assumptions/provisos in their thonkposts (this shit is expensive (for research volume) and only some people can afford the science experiments)
Got a list of a couple of names I’m keeping an eye on as the first tokenprice-pocalypse (that needs a better word) takes place
Vibenarok
Eschatoken
ooh, brava!
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