In the most unexpected turn of events @seyong has reached out through a mutual friend And to my surprise, he showed genuine remorse and was transparent about the reality behind the numbers he shared Of the 20+ investigations I’ve conducted over the years, this is the first time something like this has happened “He just did that because he knows what would’ve followed…” It would be naive to think my reputation had nothing to do with his decision to reach out. But even if it did, that's not necessarily a bad thing If people are more inclined to own their mistakes because they know they'll be held accountable, I consider that progress He acknowledged his mistake, took responsibility, and offered to share internal data with me to back up his claims He did the right thing to do in this situation As far as I’m concerned, the matter is closed I’m moving on

Aight I had enough >be @msuiche >reverse engineer Windows internals as a teenager >discover multiple Windows kernel vulnerabilities, Microsoft publicly thank him 3 SEPARATE times >casually help pioneer modern memory forensics >build tools so good Microsoft actually takes notice >reverse engineer the NSA's leaked hacking tools >get personally threatened by the Shadow Brokers >same group later calls you a fun guy and wants to meet >become a recurring character in their cryptic announcements >help expose NotPetya as a destructive cyberweapon disguised as ransomware >co-found CloudVolumes >VMware acquires it for $45 MILLION >build Comae >Magnet Forensics acquires its technology for millions >move to SF to work on AI security because chad doesn't want the EA larpers to be in charge >drops weekly original security research on here for free >4 likes >1 is me >meanwhile "🔥 TOP 10 KALI LINUX COMMANDS TO BECOME AN ELITE HACKER 🔥" >gets 28k likes >we deserve extinction If I've ever provided even an ounce of value to you on this app, I'm calling in a favor: Follow @msuiche, turn on notifs, and RT this until the algorithm finally releases him from Twitter jail. Guys I am THIS close to convincing him to get a camera crew to document his day2day work Imagine how cool it would be to get regular content from the inside of frontier AI research, especially AI safety Not another fucking 78 tweet thread about how important AI safety is or some D-tier podcast full of people theorizing about it, but literally watching someone at the frontier actually DO the work Would be great for literally everyone involved The fact that we have people like this willing to share their work publicly and the algorithm buries them is fucking criminal