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hiddenvulkcanon GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities

Somewhat tone deaf from anthropic.

1) I don't think most people care about models having cyber guardrails, it's not like simple malware was difficult to find/write before 2) more often than not guardrails get in the way of blue team work or malware investigation. Any code I have that touches malware I now use GLM or DeepSeek on.

hiddenvulkcanon First Principles Thinking

I mean that's always been the paradox that good devs need to live in, and I often go backwards and forwards on the scale between technically pure, and straight up problem solving.

Fundamentally software we create exists to solve problems, if bad code solves the problem is it bad code? Counter to that is we are engineers and it's our job to design systems that mean problems can be solved safely and effectively.

Like most things in life the truth lies in the middle

hiddenvulkcanon Why does mathmain need an encrypted loader?

I actually came across someone that cracked it (or use Claude/China to crack it)

Turns out the second stage is completely broken, which is even more odd..

https://research.veryserious.systems/lusolve-and-you-shall-r...