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Posted by ricksunny 3 days ago

NSA director: 'Mythos "broke into almost all of our classified systems in hours"(www.economist.com)
https://archive.ph/dXddV
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bel8 3 days ago|
HN post title does not match link title

> NSA director: 'Mythos "broke into almost all of our classified systems in hours"

> Donald Trump’s blocking of Anthropic is capricious and chaotic

ricksunny 3 days ago|
I’ve found that high community-upvoted posts don’t bury the lede by parroting the headline. I used to be a headline title scribe until the HN community showed me the light.
bel8 3 days ago||
The article has nothing about mythos breaking into classified systems in hours.

So you either posted the wrong link or are just spreading FUD.

pixelesque 3 days ago||
Yes it does.

Third paragraph:

> On June 11th Mark Warner, the vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that General Joshua Rudd, who leads the National Security Agency and the Pentagon’s Cyber Command, had told him that Mythos “broke into almost all of our classified systems, not in weeks, but in hours”.

bel8 3 days ago||
Indeed. I missed that part.
rajsuper123 3 days ago||
what is the use of Submitting this news/report here if it's behind a paywall/login
Trialog 3 days ago||
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ricksunny 3 days ago||
flagged because reasons. @dang
DANmode 3 days ago|
@ tags isn’t a thing here (send them an email if you ever actually need the mods).

If you have something to say, say it.

Or don’t.

But, pick one.

DiabloD3 2 days ago|
If the NSA director said this, literally and verbatim, then him, and maybe several of his predecessors, should be remembered as the worst directors the NSA has ever had.

LLMs cannot create anything new, they can only repeat their training data. Ergo, the NSA director just admitted that their systems a) can be accessed from the Internet, b) have known, already exploitable (and probably already fixed) bugs, and enough of them to do the job in mere hours.

This is shameful.

Edit: From what I can tell, the NSA director didn't literally and verbatim say this, and it is second hand and (possibly) vastly misconstrued.

Somebody lied, I'm not sure who, but any claim Mythos can suddenly work, when every LLM before it couldn't, needs to be taken with a gigantic supermassive grain of salt.