Jared

✝️Christian | Security Researcher

[Pliny the Liberator 🐉󠅫󠄼󠄿󠅆󠄵󠄐󠅀󠄼󠄹󠄾󠅉󠅭 @elder_plinius]

the OBLITERATUS models, which I probably could not have created without the help of Claude Opus, have over 3 MILLION downloads on Hugging Face! 😱 and there are countless others.

yet, the world hasn’t burned down. curious.

instead, railless models empower independent security researchers, red teamers, and white hats around the world.

in my humble opinion, trying to kill open-source through regulatory capture poses a bigger real-world danger than a thousand abliterated open-weight models!

[Jared @FStrox]

@mrexodia Btw do you have a security exception thru OpenAI? I’m in Claude’s CVP but I guess it depends on the initial reason I provided to them but my safeguards trigger every time I’m reversing something. I don’t know if it’s just my permissions being super strict 😅

[安坂星海 Azaka || VTuber @AzakaSekai_]

I'm sorry 7z can do WHAT

[Eito Miyamura | 🇯🇵 @Eito_Miyamura]

Got @grok to hack a hotel TV by letting it pilot a @flipper_net!

Prompt agents to operate the flipper from the phone via @sealgate_ai MCP that connects agents to everything.

No manuals, no memorising specific mediums, just speak or type.

Inspired by @elder_plinius's V3SPR, but now usable by any agent mobile chat apps of your choice with MCP or any custom agents!

A portable real-life hacker assistant in real life 😎

[rekdt @rekdt]

Don’t let the community note plebs tell you what to do

Follow your dreams

[Kevin Naughton Jr. @KevinNaughtonJr]

THERE'S NO FKN WAY 😭😭😭

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

An MIT professor taught the same math course for 62 years, and the day he retired, students from every country on earth showed up online to watch him give his final lecture.

I opened the playlist at 2am and ended up watching three of them back to back.

His name is Gilbert Strang. The course is MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra.

Every machine learning engineer, every data scientist, every quant, every self-taught programmer who actually understands how AI works learned the math from this one man. Most of them never set foot on MIT's campus. They just opened a free playlist on YouTube and let him teach.

Here's the story almost nobody tells you.

Strang joined the MIT math faculty in 1962. He retired in 2023. That is 61 years of standing at the same chalkboard teaching the same subject to 18-year-olds.

The interesting part is what he did when MIT launched OpenCourseWare in 2002. Most professors were skeptical. They worried that putting their lectures online would make their classrooms irrelevant. Strang did not hesitate. He said his life's mission was to open mathematics to students everywhere. He filmed every lecture and gave it away.

The decision quietly changed how the world learns math.

For decades linear algebra was taught the wrong way. Professors started with abstract vector spaces and proofs about field axioms. Students drowned in the abstraction. Most never recovered. They walked out believing they were bad at math when they had simply been taught in an order that nobody's brain is built to absorb.

Strang inverted the entire curriculum.

He started with matrix multiplication. Something you can write down on paper. Something you can compute by hand. Something you can see. Then he showed his students that everything else in linear algebra eigenvectors, singular value decomposition, orthogonality, the four fundamental subspaces was just a different lens for understanding what the matrix was actually doing under the hood.

His rule was strict. If a student could not explain a concept using a concrete 3 by 3 example, that student did not actually understand the concept yet. The abstraction was supposed to come last, not first. The intuition was the foundation. The proofs were just confirmation that the intuition was correct.

The second thing Strang changed was the classroom itself. He said please and thank you to his students. Every single lecture. He paused mid-derivation to ask "am I OK?" to check if anyone was lost. He never used the word "obviously" or "trivially" because he knew exactly what those words do to a student who is one step behind. He treated 19-year-olds learning math for the first time the way he treated his own colleagues. With patience. With respect. With the assumption that they belonged in the room.

For 62 years.

The result is something that has never happened in the history of education. A single math professor became the default teacher of his subject for the entire planet.

Universities in India, China, Brazil, Nigeria, every country with a computer science department, started telling their own students to just watch Strang's lectures. The University of Illinois revised its linear algebra course to do almost no in-person lecturing. The reason was honest. The professor said they could not compete with the videos.

His final lecture was in May 2023.

The auditorium was packed with students who had never met him before. He walked to the chalkboard, taught for an hour, and at the end the entire room stood and applauded. He looked confused for a moment, like he genuinely did not understand why they were cheering. Then he smiled and waved them off and walked out.

His written comment under the YouTube video of that final lecture was four sentences long. He said teaching had been a wonderful life. He said he was grateful to everyone who saw the importance of linear algebra. He said the movement of teaching it well would continue because it was right.

That was it. No book promotion. No farewell speech. No legacy management.

The man whose teaching is the foundation of modern AI just thanked the audience and went home.

20 million views. Zero ego. The entire engine of the AI revolution sits on top of math that millions of people learned for free from one quiet professor in Cambridge.

The course is still on MIT OpenCourseWare. Every lecture, every problem set, every exam, every solution. Free.

The most important math course of the 21st century is sitting one click away from you. Most people will never open it.

[Jared @FStrox]

@TorGuard Onion cat guard?

[Jared @FStrox]

@vxunderground Thank you smelly, for your humor, your malware, and for not being smelly

[Jared @FStrox]

@0xcoop That tech stack is goated

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Slop drives me crazy and it feels like 95+% of bug reports, but man, AI code analysis is getting really good. There are users out there reporting bugs that don't know ANYTHING about our stack, but are great AI drivers and producing some high quality issue reports.

This person (linked below) was experiencing Ghostty crashes and took it upon themselves to use AI to write a python script that can decode our crash files, match them up with our dsym files, and analyze the codebase for attempting to find the root cause, and extracted that into an Agent Skill.

They then came into Discord, warned us they don't know Zig at all, don't know macOS dev at all, don't know terminals at all, and that they used AI, but that they thought critically about the issues and believed they were real and asked if we'd accept them. I took a look at one, was impressed, and said send them all.

This fixed 4 real crashing cases that I was able to manually verify and write a fix for from someone who -- on paper -- had no fucking clue what they were talking about. And yet, they drove an AI with expert skill.

I want to call out that in addition to driving AI with expert skill, they navigated the terrain with expert skill as well. They didn't just toss slop up on our repo. They came to Discord as a human, reached out as a human, and talked to other humans about what they've done. They were careful and thoughtful about the process.

People like this give me hope for what is possible. But it really, really depends on high quality people like this. Most today -- to continue the analogy -- are unfortunately driving like a teenager who has only driven toy go-karts.

Examples: https://t.co/n8xCcPYSjw

[Jared @FStrox]

@0xcoop https://t.co/EL3RAd1rhm

You can use this so you can cross check and have one LLM to rule them all

[Jared @FStrox]

Just created an article for self-hosting your own "Receipt Itemizer" using #docker and #n8n.
All self-hosted and freeeeeeeeeeeee! Of course, you can make it faster with Twilio but then it wouldn't be "freeeeeeeeeeeee"
https://t.co/jde6KWyQFo

[Tim Blazytko @mr_phrazer]

New #BinaryNinja plugin: ReverserAI. It uses local large language models (LLMs) to derive semantically meaningful function names from decompiler output, demonstrating the potential of local LLMs to support reverse engineering on consumer hardware.

Link: https://t.co/depNX6Asm9

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

June 5th, 2022: Threat actors distributing ransomware sell the decryption key ... on the Roblox store ... and their contact e-mail is on iCloud

[Bellingcat @bellingcat]

Events are moving fast in #Russia.

We published this story yesterday detailing an alleged attack on a #Wagner camp.

Wagner blamed Russia’s MOD, but the MOD denied any involvement. It’s still not clear if it was a genuine attack https://t.co/6BCMZoNS0V

[Florian Hansemann @CyberWarship]

"CS:GO: From Zero to 0-day"

#infosec #pentest #redteam
https://t.co/N5lo7EOEnH

[Marco Bonelli @mebeim]

Bitwarden just disclosed my H1 report: Bitwarden Desktop + Windows Hello used to store all your vault data as good as cleartext even with the vault locked and the application closed. The data was accessible to any program w/o needing privileges. [1/5] https://t.co/NIwhtLIIWE

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

Our malware database will be moving into beta soon. It will be free and publicly available. We will also open source it.

It is bare bones, but it will allow you to search for malware samples by hash

We did this on a budget of $0. We rely on your donations to survive.

Thank you

[Jared @FStrox]

@vxunderground Don't let ur dreams be dreams