Matt Culbert

I'm releasing an unfinished tool to use DNS as a C2 comm method github.com/matt-culbert/p… As of right now, it doesn't have the capability to execute commands, but all communication is made to look like DNS requests

"You need to understand that Sam can never be trusted." "He is a sociopath. He would do anything." - Aaron Swartz on Altman, shortly before he took his own life

(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I've been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for @NewYorker. With my coauthor @andrewmarantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private notes, and interviewed more than 100 people. OpenAI was founded on the premise that A.I. could be the most dangerous invention in human history—and that its C.E.O. would need to be a person of uncommon integrity. We lay out the most detailed account yet of why Altman was ousted out by board members and executives who came to believe he lacked that integrity, and ask: were they right to allege that he couldn't be trusted? A thread on some of of our findings:

Yeah this is obviously not legal

Experiencing some pretty hardcore burn out in malware. However, a word of advice for the noobs, or less-er experienced people in cybersecurity, "burn out" is part of the natural progression of this ecosystem and it happens to everyone. Your brain is a muscle (not literally, but brains have this dumb stuff called neuroplasticity, some nerd stuff, whatever), and just like a muscle, you need down time to heal, and science, or something. Myself personally, I tend to go through waves of absurd productivity with little to no pacing. I get extremely excited, rip through code, ... and then lose control and crash and burn. Then it takes me anywhere between a few days, ... or few weeks, ... or worse case a few months to recompose myself and get back in the game. This is a good opportunity to switch it up a little bit. Instead of going schizo on malware, I've been exploring the internet, reading about current geopolitical stuff, and reading some psychology stuff. I personally think it's important to keep "exercising" the muscle (plus I like learning), but some of my peers decompress altogether and switch to consuming high quality brain rot. Anyway, the point being, if you've been going hard and suddenly you feel disappointed, or sad, or don't feel that "spark", or feel yourself struggling to even do a few lines of code, it is almost certainly burn out. I know some nerds are kind of hard on themselves, so don't beat yourself up if you feel this way. It happens to all of us (unless you're abusing narcotics to stay locked in). Take this as a sign and use the opportunity to do something else. One day you'll be doing something and out of seemingly nowhere you'll feel that "spark" again and be like HOLY FUCK, I WANT TO CODE (or whatever you do). Pic unrelated

“Someone decided to compress the kill chain. Someone decided that deliberation was latency. Someone decided to build a system that produces 1,000 targeting decisions an hour and call them high-quality. Calling it an “AI problem” gives those decisions and people a place to hide.”

“It is beneath my dignity to let myself be run over by any trolley, and particularly this trolley, burdened as it is by a cape and a stupid hat.” I wrote for Defector about boycotting Harry Potter, the ‘safe’, kindly face of anti-trans politics: defector.com/its-time-to-gr…

This position is so obviously and wilfully moronic at this point that even Variety is not buying it

lmaoooo remind me to never get on hannah einbinder’s bad side

It seems we just bombed some residential buildings in an attempt to kill a former diplomat who was trying to facilitate negotiations. A civilian trying to *end* hostilities, surrounded by other civilians in their homes. We are completely lost.

tmz: we tracked down all 86 politicians who were refusing to pay TSA agents and asked them why they are little bitch boys nyt: melania makes an incredible peach cobbler

the real reason why they try to eliminate the humanities

Things like this hit me especially hard after starting to read “thirty-two words for field,” which came out before AI took off, and talks about the richness in languages like Irish that we are losing

Yep. and from Google:

Antony Blinken’s State Department said they would not sanction this unit that killed a 78-year-old Palestinian-American, because they trusted Israel to fix things. 2 year later, the unit assaults a CNN crew. Blinken is now a board member at the Center for American Progress.

The IDF took what appears to be unprecedented action against the battalion involved in my team's assault & detention. In many ways, that's due to our position as US journalists. In too many cases involving Palestinian journalists & civilians, we've seen a lack of accountability.

Microsoft / GitHub injecting ads into CoPilot generated PRs: welcome to the future! notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-edited… (yes, this was a confirmed "feature" from someone on the CoPilot team; apparently they are disabling it after backlash)

The Expanse has NINE novels, nine novellas and short stories, the roleplaying game, 62 episodes of TV over six seasons to draw from… yet they needed AI slop for “vision coordination” and “inspiration”?!

This is the key point. Carlson is going viral and winning these encounters because his opponents are all stuck on scripts and talking points and have never been challenged on them, even mildly. This is part of a much bigger story of American media decline and collapse.

I have waited years for someone to challenge this nonsense phrase on mainstream media. An indictment of the liberal PEP media that it took Tucker Carlson to do it. And he undeniably did it well.

Damning evidence suggesting that compliance certificates issued by Delve (a startup founded in 2023) are fraudlent + worthless I never understood how eg Cluely could be GDPR, SOC2, HIPAA compliant in ~a week. Now we know: they probably aren't. Just wild substack.com/home/post/p-19…