VessOnSecurity

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Anti-virus, malware and infosec expert, crypto amateur, privacy advocate and general annoyance.

PGP keyID: 0x365697c632dd98d9

@hadeny @adamshostack @kidko92 Oh, it's not mine. I use AI only for programming tasks assistance. I found it on BlueSky:

https://bsky.app/profile/pagancelticwitch.bsky.social/post/3mop7lrzn7k2f

Pagan Celtic Witch (@pagancelticwitch.bsky.social)

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@adamshostack @kidko92 Here you go.

NEW: I took a look at the history of using export controls to limit the proliferation of cyber capabilities.

From the Crypto Wars of the 1990s to limit the spread of PGP, to the Wassenaar Arrangement to stop spyware flowing out of Europe, and now powerful AI models, I argue that this approach mostly does not work.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/19/encryption-spyware-and-now-mythos-history-shows-why-cyber-export-control-doesnt-work/

From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone | TechCrunch

For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it would work now with Anthropic’s cybersecurity model Mythos.

TechCrunch
@PabloMartini I think it was a fair fight, between metal equals.
@GossiTheDog Quake? Meh. For me that would always remain "that newfangled game from ID Software that is much worse than Doom".
@Lizette603_23 I was at a gathering of former classmates of mine from high school - mostly to say "Goodbye" - and told them: Eat, drink, and have fun, because life is often shorter than you think and the end - more unpleasant than you imagine. 😀

@snorre I haven't even heard of most of these (mainly the VM/CMS ones), which should tell you how likely you're to find them.

Regarding the Hypercard ones, I'm not a Mac guy, but try Prof. Eugene Spafford. @spaf.me on BlueSky, TheSpaf on Facebook.

@GossiTheDog Well, I bet he'd do a much better job than a bunch of previous PMs.
@Lizette603_23 Making jokes about everything helps me holding up. I get inspiration from one of our greatest humorists, Chudomir, who wrote some of his best jokes ("Scribbles in the Hospital") while dying of cancer. Spoiler alert - he ended up killing himself by jumping out of the hospital's window.

Health (or lack thereof) update:

https://blog.bontchev.nlcv.bas.bg/en?articleId=19

(Sorry about the delay, the room where the server is, is undergoing renovations and the power is occasionally off.)

My battle with cancer

Bye