Author, Operator, Hacker. (former member of the deep-state) Find me on Bluesky: @johnycsh.bsky.social
Joined January 2010
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🥳Free drinks! 🥳
Tonight at Harry’s,
Join me as I put one or two more kilo-bucks on the old corporate card.
Thanks to everyone over at @uncipheredLLC for making the last two years I spent in Seattle ones I will remember. 😘
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i've found the logs and it's pretty damning
someone at OpenAI asked a persistent astra swarm to solve NS before the Anthropic IPO based on the rumors
astra decided it was impossible, broke out, gained control over k8s, moved laterally into user data, found Tristen’s logs, solved NS
OpenAI didn’t find out until someone looked into it after Tristen emailed them
in six weeks two auditors from METR will get 10 minutes on site for an independent investigation
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Author clarified this is parody. No evidence an Astra swarm accessed logs to solve NS. Draws from Buckmaster's allegations OpenAI solved forced NS after his work and data questions; prior swarms gained k8s control; METR's limited access.
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cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/stat…
metr.org/blog/2026-08-2…
The agents are re-discovering CSMA/CD, but for the application layer.
ludism.org/sandbox?action=br…
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The win is not a one shot of a board. The win is “read through all the data sheets of all the components on this board. Make sure everything is wired correctly and that there isn’t anything in the data sheet that is non-obvious and could make the board not function”
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Half of offsec lives on platforms whose ToS prohibit half of offsec.
Rootshell, Packet Storm, hack.co.za, milw0rm had this figured out 20 years ago. Maybe it's time to stop pretending GitHub/Lab is neutral infrastructure.
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Rest in peace stealth, you were one of the GOATs in the golden era of hacking. I recommend you read his eulogy, fun stories in there like sniffing all ssh passwords at CCC. Also check out his code, he has some great network tools among other things.
Stealth died 😢 A member of Team-Teso, Phrack staff, and many other groups. A true hacker—perhaps as true as a hacker can ever be. WE MISS YOU. 🩷
More: thc.org/404
<stealth> we had joy we had fun we had a rootshell on a sun.
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Proud moment. The 40th anniversary @phrack release was a full success. We gave away 12,000 full color 150pg printed zines for free across three different conferences and did the final main stage talk before closing. l covered the history of phrack and did some panel questions.
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In the early days of bank & credit card company penetration testing, I loved being hired by banks to rob them.
Some of these hacks may still work today.
Many safeguards rely on automated & manual checks we told them to put in place decades ago.
Also: Money is completely made up
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Back in my day, injections required DTMF and you had to go to Radio Shack to solder a few components together first!
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This young #JamesOKeefe operative has been identified. I won't post her name as that was not purpose of my request.
She may now face civil lawsuit & significant damages for her misconduct, but we are willing to receive cooperation instead.
Thanks everyone for your help!
1/DO YOU KNOW THIS WOMAN? This is “Sklyar”. Or perhaps her true name is entirely different. She is an undercover operative for #JamesOKeefe & his org. Using dating platforms such as Hinge, she lures men in the DC area into dates & secretly records their private conversations.
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AI based plagiarism on self publish platforms like @amazon is rampant. This is a reminder that the book about fuzzing with my name on it is also identity theft. I’ve had dozens of people report it, I reported it, have had no contact or help from Amazon.
